On this day in 1978, the cartoon Garfield appeared for the first time. Garfield was found in the funny pages of over 40 newspapers. Garfield was created by an Indiana cartoonist named Jim Davis. Jim Davis was a graduate of Ball University and was a well-known cartoonist but none of his successes could compare with Garfield. Garfield was born on this day in Mama Leone's Italian restaurant, which might explain the love for Italian food in this orange tabbies life. Garfield began eating them out of house and home causing him to go to the pet shop. He was eventually adopted by a cartoonist named Jon Arbuckle who had a dog named Odie. Despite their disagreements, Garfield, Jon, and Odie became lifelong friends. Garfield will always be remembered as a lazy, fat, cynical cat who loves to eat almost any food (especially lasagna) but not raisins. Garfield was also well-known for his ability to watch TV and take long naps. Other than his favorite pastimes of eating and sleeping he enjoyed kicking dogs off kitchen tables, shipping cute kittens to Abu Dhabi, and tormenting the local mailman. There were a few things that Garfield has not enjoyed over the years. He always had an aversion with Mondays, despised exercises, avoided the veterinarian Liz, and could not bear cute kittens named Nermal. Over the course of the last 40 plus years, Garfield has enjoyed not just time in the newspaper but also multiple TV shows, two movies, and more cat merchandise in cars than you could ever imagine.
Garfield just wouldn't be Garfield unless he was lazy,
and while that is cute for an orange cartoon cat it is not a trait that we as
Christians should desire to follow. The Bible speaks frequently about the value
of hard work. In the book of Genesis, we find that God created work and deems it
as good. The opposite of hard work is laziness which the scripture tells us is
a sin. Proverbs 13:4 says The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. A sluggard is a lazy
person who has the same desires as other people but does nothing, and since he
does nothing he gets nothing. But the opposite is true for the diligent man,
for the hard-working individual. The hard-working individual performs his best
knowing that his work honors God and in turn, God blesses honest hard work. Take
a moment and examine your life, would you label yourself as a hard worker, or
are you slothful. God will only bless one. Be that one.
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