It Makes Complete Sense!

In the first panel of a particularly insightful “Peanuts” cartoon, Little Lucy, her fist clenched, is running after Charlie Brown. “I’ll get you Charlie Brown! I’ll get you!” she says. In the second panel, she cries out, “I’ll knock your block off!” In the third, fourth, fifth and sixth panels, Charlie Brown takes over. He stops running, wheels around, and says to Lucy, “Wait a minute! Hold everything! We can’t carry on like this. We have no right to act this way. The world is filled with problems — people hurting other people, people not understanding other people. Now, if we as children can’t solve what are relatively minor problems, how can we ever expect to …” Whereupon — “Pow!” — Lucy interrupts Charlie with a stiff punch that knocks him to the ground. In the last panel, Lucy says, “I had to hit him quick. He was beginning to make sense.”

The great Christian writer, C.S. Lewis, reminds us of certain things in life…