What a week! February has arrived, President Bush has a new 4-year plan, and our weather has gone from 58 and overcast to 70 and sunny. It’s a beautiful day and even though I’m stuck in my office I’m thankful to be alive and doing well on this, here Thursday. It seems that things are always going on in our life…good, bad and ugly…God is growing us alot through the happenings these days. I’m glad to have hope that He is growing us from yesterday, taking us into each tomorrow, and giving His grace to live today. James 4 says, “You do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.”

We seem to be having problems where phones are involved. Bobby and I were so excited about our upgraded cell phones. But mine was lost for awhile due to an address mistake and arrived almost a week after Bobby’s…in which time he noticed an equipment problem in his. It’s nice that you can just mail it back and they send you a new one, so in the meantime Bobby is cell phone-less eagerly awaiting the replacement. I guess our home phone was feeling left out and it suddenly started having major static and interference, so much so that I had to call SBC to get it fixed. However when I was told that it would cost $55 fee to have a technician simply come out look at the problem, I changed my mind. So now I’m not sure what we’ll do about that…The moral of the story is, if you are trying to reach us via-telephone and can’t…we’re sorry that our phones aren’t being cooperative. Please hang up and try your call again…(in a few days!)

It being such a beautiful day yesterday Bobby happily walked out to his car to go to work, but didn’t realize that he left his keys inside locking himself out of our apartment. And without a cell phone he couldn’t call me so he walked down the street to Starbucks and Ty called my office for assistance. It was pretty amusing.

At the recommendation of my sister, I started reading The Cross Centered Life, by C.J. Mahaney. In it I read an inspiring challenge about living cross centered days, “If the gospel is the most vital news in the world, and if salvation by grace is the defining truth of our existence, we should create ways to immerse ourselves in these truths every day. No days off allowed.” I found this exhortation to be very fitting because sometimes we say, “I’m having a really stressful/bad/frustrating/sad day…so I’m not going to take the opportunities I have to proclaim truth and hope to others.” Or, “I am just so busy that I don’t even have a chance to think on these truths or about God in my day, I save that for my devotional time.” I like how he challenged to create ways to immerse myself in that as a lifestyle, and the way that I think not something that I do. As long as we have today, we should live for Him. I like how James 4:14 says, “For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.” He warns us not to be all about our schedules and planning the future. Be about living obedient to the Lord today because we might not even have tomorrow.

It’s a beautiful day, don’t let it get away…