Many of you know my struggle between like-dislike, appreciation-confusion, with Gary Larson's "Far Side" cartoons. I vacillate between like-dislike, appreciation-confusion. I keep on reading them, and I'm not quite sure why. Maybe it's because he gives me something now and then to flavor a sermon. Such is the case with this one.

It depicts a bug resting on a leaf which gently sways over a lovely pond. The bug is on his back in the crook of the leaf, his ankles are crossed, and two of his six arms are crossed behind his head. "Ahhhhh, this is the life!," he is saying. Unknown to him, the eyes of a huge frog surface from the pond directly beneath his leaf. Frogs love bugs.

Some of us are oblivious to the enemies that lie in wait to gobble us up. But most of us are aware aware to the point …