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Good morning.

Another Monday morning. If you鈥檙e struggling to get out of bed to face the day on this dark, February Monday, you鈥檙e in good company. February is a tough month for most of us. The Christmas festivities are a distant memory, the enthusiasm of beginning a New Year is mostly exhausted and the summer is still too far away in the future to be any consolation.

My three year-old nephew doesn鈥檛 have the problem of the February blues. He bounds out of bed 鈥� often while his parents are still rubbing their eyes 鈥� and runs head-long into the day. He gets excited about dogs in the park and ducks in the pond; diggers, fire engines and double-decker buses are all worthy of wondrous awe. Silly games of peek-a-boo send him into ecstasies of joy, long after the grown-ups have grown bored.

G. K. Chesterton imagines that God, like my nephew, exults with joy, even in the monotony of a Monday morning. That 鈥淕od says every morning, 鈥榙o it again鈥� to the sun鈥� and makes every daisy alike, not out of necessity, but 鈥渂ecause he never got tired of making them the same.鈥� God, Chesterton explains, 鈥渉as the eternal appetite of infancy鈥� and our Father is younger than we.鈥�

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Almighty Father, as we begin this new day which is your gift to us, restore to us the joy of our youth. Recreate in us the innocence we have lost over the years, lighten the burdens that adult life imposes and renew in us a joyful wonder at your Creation. Help us to see the opportunities in this day ahead, and give us your strength to face whatever challenges might come our way. We ask this, through Christ our Lord.听 Amen.听听听听听