Today is the day!Today is the day that Disneyland celebrates its 55th birthday.
Can you imagine? Fifty-five years of being called "the happiest place on earth?"
And that is precisely what the Disney enterprise attempts to do -- to makes its places the happiest places on earth.
They try real hard.
They instill that desire in all their cast members.
They do a pretty darn good job with it as well.
We should do the same.
After all, if we truly reflect upon the great gift God has given to us -- redemption through His Son -- we would be the happiest people on earth and we would spread that happiness quite naturally to all the people we meet.
It should work that way.
However, we spend so much of our lives grumping. Disney knew that. Which is why one of the dwarfs was named Grumpy. And people laughed at him. He needed to cheer up.
We do not have to travel to a happiest place on earth. (Unless we are going there for a vacation, that is!
) Because we should be creating the happiest place on earth in the exact spot in which we find ourselves daily.So, here's to Walt Disney, for bringing us some earthly joy.
But here's to God, for brining us eternal joy. That is certainly something to make each of us happy!
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