Daily Reflections
The late Maurice Sendak did not write and illustrate your typical children’s books. His well-known Where the Wild Things Are presented super scary-looking monsters and children who were less perfect in appearance—more like “real kids,” he would say. But it’s what was at the heart of his works that makes them stand out.
“Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life’s concern,” he said in one interview. He included those themes even in productions of opera, ballet and plays he did outside the world of writing for kids. And if Sendak’s main characters sometimes faced scary, even dangerous situations, they always returned home, safe, in the end.
Daily, we face realities that are discouraging, disappointing, sometimes even frightening. But with faith and trust in a loving God, we can see our way through the personal story of each and every day.
The Lord is good, a stronghold in a day of trouble. (Nahum 1:7)
Guide me, Father, as I face the difficulties and decisions of this day.
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