Mark 8:18

Another Groundhog’s Day has come and gone. If you are like me, you put little confidence in Punxsutawney Phil’s annual weather prediction. (For what it’s worth, Phil the groundhog did not see his shadow this past February 2, and thus, we are supposed to have an early spring). Thinking of this occasion, I am reminded of the movie Groundhog Day (1993) starring Bill Murray as a cursed news reporter who relives February 2 over and over again. He is aware of this reality, but no one else is. He becomes so distraught over his entrapment in Groundhog Day that he takes his own life on several occasions. Nevertheless, he always wakes up the next morning at 6:00pm to the sound of Sonny and Cher singing “I Got You, Babe” playing on his hotel radio. It is a frustrating movie indeed! No one that Bill Murray’s character encounters could remember anything that happened or was spoken on February 2 from one day to the next.