A few years ago, one of the year's biggest movies was "Forest Gump." Actor Tom Hanks played the role of a handicapped man whose mother believed in him to the extent that he was willing to try anything. He would often quote one of his mother’s favourite lines. "My mother says, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get.’”
Today, I suggest that life is like a box of chocolates, not because we never know what we will get, though that may be true, but for another reason altogether. We have all noticed that foods that no one likes in the family do not get eaten quickly. When we open sweets around my house, they will be gone quickly. However, we could open a jar of marmite, and it would last a long time because no one is eager to eat it. That is the lesson that I want us to focus on today. Life is like a box of chocolates; it never lasts very long.
