I wonder how often folks dream about, pray for, yearn for someone to correct all wrongs, settle all scores, and turn everything around in their lives.
I wonder how many of us are folks like that.
Mighty Mouse used to save the day for folks who were in trouble in the cartoon world he lived in. "Here I come to save the day/That mean's that Mighty Mouse is on the way..." Developed by Terrytoons studios, the cartoon ran from 1942 to 1961. Mighty Mouse had super-powers of flight, incredible strength, and he was invulnerable. He could turn back time.
Mighty Mouse was one of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid growing up in small-town Indiana. I knew he wasn't real, but it sure was fun to pretend that maybe there was some super-hero like him who could make everything right, make everything good, and avenge all ills. Wouldn't it be great if he really could save the day. Every day. All day long. Just for me.
Well, Mighty Mouse can't really do that sort of thing. Not in the real world where you and I live.
Nobody can do that in the real world where you and I live.
Not even a particular god we believe in can do that in the real world where you and I live.
Some days cannot be saved. Some days are just terrible. That's the real world where you and I live. That's real life.
What we do in reaction to every day of our life...the good days and the terrible days...that's what will, in some small way, save (redeem) the day. You and I have that power.
But we don't have a really cool cape, like Mighty Mouse.
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