Friday, April 1, 2016

SABRINA

Happy April Fools’ Day! The custom of playing practical jokes on friends has

been part of our traditional celebration dating as far back as ancient Rome. It is

said to be related to the vernal equinox and the coming of spring - when nature

fools us with the sudden changes between showers and sunshine, hot and cold.
In 1957, the British Broadcasting Network showed the Swiss harvesting

spaghetti from trees. A lot of people called wanting spaghetti trees of their own.
Or there was the report on television about the invention of dehydrated water,

claiming that all you had to do was shine ultraviolet light onto a powder and it

turned into water.
Before we go around condemning others, we must humbly admit that we all (at

one time or another) have played the fool. We have fallen victim to doing foolish

and unwise things. The result? Our lives had become enmeshed in the

consequences of the domino effect of reaping that which we had sown.
So FOR today may our prayer be, “Please help us to follow in your footsteps, be

wise and, above all, kind in all that we do and most certainly in all that we say.