As my daughter gets older, I spend more and more time watching children’s television. Let’s just say that I know all the residents of Sesame Street a whole lot better now that ever before, and I can do all the moves to the “Hot Dog Dance.” But there’s one show that may be a little over her head at the moment, but it is fabulous and so I watch it. It has changed my life. And that show is “Phineas and Ferb.”
If you have never seen the show, each episode has essentially the same plot. The boys spend each day of their summer vacation having the “best day ever,” and so they start by building some amazing contraption, which their older sister is intent on “busting” them for. Meanwhile, their pet platypus (who is really a secret agent) heads of on a mission to defeat the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz who is attempting to take over the tri-state area. Consequently, Perry’s defeat of Doofenshmirtz always destroys the evidence of whatever Phineas and Ferb have built that day just in time to prevent their mother from seeing it.
The show is a lot of fun, and the humor is right up my alley, what I really love is the way the boys have a worldview that says that every day can be great if you want it to be. I think this is a Biblical idea. While bad things happen, God tells us to rejoice in suffering (James 1:2). Each day I can choose to make the most of every moment God has given me and have “the best day ever” or I can let my circumstances tell me what each day is going to be like. Lately I’ve been guilty of the latter, having a crummy day and then making it worse by complaining about it. God is showing me that each day can be great if I want it to, because each day I have an opportunity to grow closer and closer to Him.
Hey, where’s Perry?
If you have never seen the show, each episode has essentially the same plot. The boys spend each day of their summer vacation having the “best day ever,” and so they start by building some amazing contraption, which their older sister is intent on “busting” them for. Meanwhile, their pet platypus (who is really a secret agent) heads of on a mission to defeat the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz who is attempting to take over the tri-state area. Consequently, Perry’s defeat of Doofenshmirtz always destroys the evidence of whatever Phineas and Ferb have built that day just in time to prevent their mother from seeing it.
The show is a lot of fun, and the humor is right up my alley, what I really love is the way the boys have a worldview that says that every day can be great if you want it to be. I think this is a Biblical idea. While bad things happen, God tells us to rejoice in suffering (James 1:2). Each day I can choose to make the most of every moment God has given me and have “the best day ever” or I can let my circumstances tell me what each day is going to be like. Lately I’ve been guilty of the latter, having a crummy day and then making it worse by complaining about it. God is showing me that each day can be great if I want it to, because each day I have an opportunity to grow closer and closer to Him.
Hey, where’s Perry?
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