Perseverance

Perhaps you’ve heard the old story of the two frogs who fell into a bucket of cream. They kept swimming around, swimming around, swimming around, and one frog said, “this is hopeless” – and he gave up and he drowned.  The other one kept thrashing around, thrashing around, thrashing around, and eventually found himself on top of a bucket of butter and jumped out of the bowl.

It’s a story that’s used to talk about perseverance – not giving up but fighting over and over again.  It’s something similar to the poor man that was by the pool in Bethesda, who waited for 38 years to get cured, and eventually Christ comes and cures him.  As we continue our Lenten journey, perhaps we should be reminded that we should not give up hope.  Give up hope that we can overcome issues in our own life that keep us from Christ – that we thrash around, thrash around, thrash around, and find ourselves on top of a bucket of butter.

Monsignor Daniel Hoye