Groundhog Day

For years I avoided watching the movie Groundhog Day. Then once, when the movie was showing late night on TBS, I decided to give it a chance. I found that Groundhog Day was not only an funny movie, but it was intelligent and thought-provoking. Furthermore, I think it speaks to the human condition in a profound way, especially people living in modern times.

For those of you who do not know, the movie is about a reporter grudgingly covering Groundhog Day. The reporter, played by Bill Murray gets stuck in some sort of time warp living Groundhog Day over and over again. At first he is angry and bitter about being stuck there, trying to find his way out. After a while he begins to make the routine of living the same day over and over again a little bit different. Then he begins to make each and every day a little better. He seeks out ways to help people, to serve others, to make the same boring day that he lives over and over again a little better. Before long he is saving people from immanent death, helping an old lady who is about to spill her groceries, and of course looking for better and better ways to win the girl he likes. In the end, he find how to live meaningfully and joyfully through a life where he is stuck doing the exact same thing over and over again.

Many out there have lives and jobs like Groundhog Day. Stuck doing the same things over and over again, and they seem either dull or overwhelming, and you wonder if what you are doing is meaningless. The truth is that wherever you are you can be like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. You can add meaning to your life by the attitude you bring to things, and by looking for and seizing small ways to love and serve others.

God Bless you in the adventure of faith.