Daily Devotion - Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Today is Groundhog Day. It also happens to be my parent's forty-eighth wedding anniversary. I'm pretty sure over the years they've heard every joke that you could possibly make about getting married on Groundhog Day. I'm also pretty sure they didn't think all that much about the fact they were getting married on Groundhog Day forty-eight years ago. The now cult-classic movie Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray has made the holiday a lot more famous than when I was a kid. In the movie, Murray's character, who is a gasbag, arrogant TV reporter, gets stuck in a time warp while covering the Groundhog Day festivities in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. He is forced to live the same day over and over again every day. It's rare in this day and age to find people who have been married for forty-eight years. Most people don't have the courage, the faith or the constancy to stay married through thick and thin, the best and the worst, sickness and h...