This weekend I noticed that the price for gas has jumped from $1.97 to $2.05 and oddly enough the two gas stations that I usually go to have recently been demolished. I mentioned this to Bobby this weekend and I started saying that maybe gas is so much that the stations can’t even support themselves. Bobby amusingly suggested that I tune in to the eleven o’ clock news to find out. We’ve noticed that newcastors have this way of trying to rope their viewers in to watch the six or eleven o’ clock news. The thing is, the local channels ususally don’t have anything big to report so we see a serious-faced reporter deliver in a gripping tone, “Squirrels being euthanized around the county, next at eleven” or maybe in this weekend’s case, “Bay area gas stations disappearing, next at eleven.” At this point the only thing I’m concerned about disappearng is the money in my wallet that it takes to fill my tank.

Bobby and I had a great weekend! It rained and poured so we stayed indoors and took naps, read good books, watched an Indiana Jones movie and shoppped at Marshalls. On Saturday I was looking through my day-planner and imagining what a life of Saturdays would be like. It isn’t that I don’t like what the Lord has set me to do, so much as I get overwhelmed by it all. This morning I read a quote by Abraham Lincoln that said “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” A similar exhortation from Scripture says, “Be very careful, then, how you live, not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.” (Ephesians 5:15-16)

So even though I’m working on a holiday and have a full week ahead I need to simply focus on living one day at a time and as Bobby and Ty would say, forget yesterday, press towards the prize, the upward call in Jesus Christ!