Welcome 2021

One of the biggest lies we tell ourselves is tomorrow will be better or next year will be better.  We can not be sure of that and that is a promise we can't keep or control.  We have today!  We have this gift and we get to choose its goodness.  We can control what we do and how we take on THIS DAY!  Maybe you have told yourself this lie or your kids this.  I have too, but it hit my really yesterday as people posted over and over OUT with 2020!  2020 was a difficult year, but if I'm being honest there  were other difficult years, maybe even more difficult years, before 2020.  A friend shared a conversation she had about the difference in suffering and inconvenience.  Now, don't think I don't see those suffering, there was suffering, there was grief, there was sadness, there was suffering. But mostly there was a lose of imagined control and inconvenience.  I did not suffer hunger, persecution, lack of shelter, lack of wifi, I still lived my amazing 1st world life that I take for granted every day.  2020 was really a wonderful year for my family.  We needed healing, we needed time, we needed each other.  Don't miss the good looking for something better!  The only thing better we are promised is eternity.  This world is not our home.  In James 4:13-17 this passage speaks to this lie we tell ourselves.  "Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.  If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them."

So, let's live each day with the promise of today! EVERYDAY IS A GOOD DAY! Set goals and make plans, but know that God is in control. And we pray "Give us this day, our daily bread." Not tomorrows or yesterdays but this day.  Make today your best day living for God and know that He will be with you everyday, He will be right there!