Do you ever read the comic strips? I've been an avid fan of "Pogo" no longer with us, and "Peanuts", still appearing though its creator, Charles Schultz, is dead. There is a lot of sound theology in the comics!
I remember when Charlie Brown and Lucy were leaning against a tree and Lucy asks, "What do you think security is?"
Charlie, or "Chuck" as Lucy calls him, replies: "Security? Security is sleeping in the back seat of the car when you're a little kid and it's night. Your parents are in the front seats and they've done all the worrying. They take care of everything."
Lucy smiles and says: "That's real neat."
"But," Charlie Brown says, "it doesn't always last. Suddenly you're grown up. And it can never be that way again. Suddenly it's over and you'll never go to sleep in the back seat again. Never!"
Lucy gets a sad and scared look on her face and says: "Never?" Then Charlie, who has scared himself with this terrible truth, says, "Never."
In the last picture Lucy, aware of the real world, reaches over to Charlie and says: "Hold my hand, hold my hand!"
We can't hold one another's hand over the miles, but we can "keep in touch." Isn't that what the gospel teaches?
"Keep in touch", my friends...keep in touch with loved ones, with friends, and with the God whom we know in the face of the Babe of Bethlehem.
Peace,
Richard
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