THURSDAY LIBRE

  
        "For Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless until it repose in Thee"
                                                       - St. Augustine

     Well I am currently following through on at least one new year's resolution - I am blogging! Not to say that today's entry is only obligatory... but I don't feel as much inspiration on this one. Other than to say that today is my glorious day off and so here I am. I hope to get some long over-due cleaning done, I am meeting Pastor for lunch at Good Foods at 12, and I need to rest. I feel as though I have been sick for nearly a month now, though I am feeling much better this morning.
     This month should prove to be a great commencement to the year. Our church is in the middle of our annual corporate Daniel Fast and we are having prayer at the church each night of the 21 days. Also, on the 14th, Colt and Leah, and Chris and Kelli are all coming up from South Carolina to visit for the weekend. Not to mention the joy of now being able to have days off like this again!
     I love the end of "Castaway" where he says "All I know is tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?" I have thought about the line many times throughout the past five or six years whenever something really amazing or terribly disappointing would take place. This year - who knows? I know it is not all up to fate, however. I have the ability to live each day to the fullest. I also know as a child of God, that as I live in the center of His will, nothing can happen to me outside of His plan. That is the safest, most dangerous place to be. Kind of like the beaver said to Lucy about Aslan in the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, "Of course He isn't safe. But He's good." And in His goodness we can trust.
     And now for an abrupt halt. I must clean and pray and shave. Until next time...

     Russ