FRESH START
A man opened up the morning paper and was shocked to find his name mistakenly printed in the obituary column. Greatly disturbed, he went to the newspaper office and complained to the editor: “This is terrible! Your error will cause me no end of embarrassment and may even mean a loss of business. How could you do such a thing?” The editor expressed regrets, but the man remained angry and unreasonable. Finally the editor said in disgust: “Cheer up, fellow. I’ll put your name in the birth column tomorrow and give you a fresh start! And that is exactly what happens to us at our baptism. We go from the obituary column to the birth column…we were dead to sin but are once again made alive! CK
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