What can go on in a single day?

Do lists try to map out the seconds one by one, ten by ten, down and check.  

Hollow inbetween spaces, the unexpected moments that the pen couldn't predict. 

You find you've passed from set to settled and settled to shocked, better and best. 

Today was marked out and done different.  

Tomorrow is a waiting word, a moment untouched and unspoiled. 

 Let alone, lose ink and paper,  discover the unplanned side of time.  

And I just love this album.....listen to the rest and fall deeply in love.  

Gone

My neighbor passed away two days ago.  He had had a stroke about a week ago and his body could not handle it.  He was sweet, quiet and simply a wonderful man.  I had never actually talked to him.....ever.  For three years I would see he and his wife constantly sitting on their porch swing and when I went outside they would wave and I would wave back.  We had a silent friendship.  Which was pretty great.  But he's gone.  His wife seems to be handling it well.  Not sad really, instead she talks about him constantly.  Sharing stories and showing everyone pictures of the handsome man that she had been married to for 40+ years.  He was a strong believer, which is extremely comforting.  I think through all this our bond with Irene is going to be strengthened.  All in all, I'm happy for him.  I hope people are happy for me when I am gone and aren't sad.  A true celebration of life, but more importantly a celebration of the God who gives life.  I have my time on this earth as do you and every living person.  I can't wait for the day when I get to go home though.....for I am a stranger in this land.  

 "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.  Blessed be the name of the Lord."

Time Traveling....

 My niece is a good driver.  We're going to go on a road trip.  When she's older.  We are going to go to a hotel.  We are going to swim.  We are not going to sleep there.  We are going to go on a boat.  At night.  We are not going to swim in the lake.  There might be gators. She hates danger.  She should be a storm chaser.  I like adventure.  I am not very adventurous.  I feel like a machine.  I would like a truck.  An old truck.  A yellow truck.  Red is good too.  I read books.  They have adventure.  I become the characters.  I used to be like that.  I used to bike.  I used to do dangerous things.  Daring things.  I'm safe now.  Its better.  In a way.  Its worse.  In a way.  I.....I....I......that's all that I see in this...."I"  I don't want to look back like the old new christian who says, "I've wasted it! I've wasted it!"  Life is more.  Each day is another opportunity to live.  Another opportunity to declare HIS name and seek HIM with your whole heart.  We are mortal.  Time is precious on this earth.  How do you spend it?

Marco....Polo

"I look at you and I see that you have a lot of pressure on you.  You are the first one to be responsible.  And well....you've forgotten how to have fun."

You're right mom.

I'm playing hide and seek with myself.....and I can't seem to find my inner child.






            

"But in truth I had never seen a face so alive, or look so keen or so friendly as that in his pale blue eyes, which yet had a haze about them as if they had done much weeping."

What an eye is God surely does know.....and all things for He is their creator and is perfection in power, knowledge and love.

Hero

And after listening to that, check this out http://iamsecond.com/#/seconds/Jason_Castro/

Truly, I Am Blessed

Today:  Woke up to cereal and a shower.  Nothing new there.  

Mom and Ben came home.....and we had a family devotions.  Reading from scripture, singing psalms and holding one another up in prayer.  I tell you, there is nothing like spending time in the Lord with family.  I am often very stubborn and/or self-centered and so are my siblings (and sometimes parents :P), but I am so thankful for the family that God has placed me in.  I wouldn't have it any other way, and obviously, neither would He.  

"Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.  They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck." ~Proverbs 1:8-9

"Then Ananias went to the house and entered it.  Placing his hands on Saul, he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit."  Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again.  He got up and was baptized, and after taking some food, he regained his strength." ~Acts 9:17-19   The Lord chooses whom He will and redeems even murderers.  

Colossians 3:23-24

"Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.  Knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward.  You are serving the Lord Christ."

I Didn't Know About THAT.

Don't you just detest when unexpected and unwanted things jump out at you?

Ah well.  We'll carry on.