For instance in one cartoon, Ziggy sits in his chair and contemplates the week that has just ended. "Sheesh! What a week!!" he says.

"MONDAY morning, my horoscope in the newspaper told me to go back to bed!
"TUESDAY, opportunity knocked while I was out back taking out the garbage.
On WEDNESDAY, my new bedroom set was diagnosed with Dutch-elm disease!
"THURSDAY, my phone rang three times with obscene bird calls for my parrot!
And FRIDAY! I had to pay the library an overdue fine for a book called, "How to Improve Your Memory!"
"And then on SATURDAY, something really exciting happened!! The doorbell rang and right there on my front porch was Ed McMahon with a giant million dollar check. Naturally, he was asking for directions to my NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE!"

You've known people like Ziggy, haven't you? Good people, nice people, people you like to have as best friends, next door neighbors, buddies on the job. They're good hearted folk but they never quite get their lives together. They are always on the outside looking in--watching life go by but never having any aspiration to lead the parade.

Not all of us have the gift of leadership, but God does call all of us to be ambitious, get off of couch, communities of faith.

Ron Newhouse