Happy Feet and a guy from Lousiana

I don't know how these two things really go together except that they are expression of the Spirit and truth abounding over and above the realm of human control and negativity. Happy Feet is a story of a penguin who doesn't quite fit in...a lot like Rudolph (as in the red nosed reindeer)and should by all rights be exiled to the island of misfit toys! However, he is not and he is quite heroic in the end. Nevertheless, he is branded as one who doesn't fit it because he won't live the status quo.

The man from Louisiana was a speaker at a National Prayer Breakfast gathering I attended. His name is Bobby Smith from Louisiana, a former state trooper who was shot in the face and left for dead. Blinded by the incident he is now a top national speaker. His words today were straight from God's Kingdom and he encouraged us all to live with the right Attitude, to be Committed to the best we can be, and to have Empathy for others...to care about others as we do ourselves. A biblical message and one that comes from the pit of his own experience. I do mean pit. Bobby also lost his daughter in 1997 while she was only 22.

These two things today made me thankful and prodded me onward to a fresh commitment to the calling of Christ in my life. Thanks Happy Feet...thanks Bobby!

-Michael