Temporary Home

Spring has decided to wait a bit before it makes it's complete arrival. Last Tuesday was so nice, but cooler temps and cloudy skies have mostly prevailed since then. My four furry friends have managed to bring in their muddy paws and this place is really going to need a good cleaning soon.

If you've been watching UK play this past week, you have seen some amazing basketball. I remember years back when we were in Rhode Island, I watched a Bobby Knight coached Indiana team, with Steve Alford, win a game in the closing seconds. I honestly didn't understand how they came back and won it like that. Well, if you watched the SEC Championship game, it was the same kind of situation. I truly believed that there was no way the cats could come back from five down with so little time remaining. I'm glad to have the ability to record and rewind the final minutes and seconds of the game or I wouldn't have believed the outcome of that game. It was absolutely unbelieveable. If you watch SportsCenter, it did indeed make the top play of championship week.

I will definitely be watching the cats as they begin play on Thursday in New Orleans. I hope they do well.

As I make my way through the forty chapters of The Purpose Driven Life, I'm always wondering what is best to share with my friends. This morning as I sat at the computer, Carrie Underwood came on CMT singing her latest music video. It's called Temporary Home. It's a beautiful song and follows circumstances of a foster child, a homeless single mom and a hospitalized elderly man. They are all experiencing the idea of their present surroundings being only temporary.

Rick Warren explains this beautifully in his book and calls it our temporary assignment in this world. We, as Christians, must continually remind ourselves that this is not our home, we are "citizens of heaven" and that is our ultimate goal. But while here, we have those five purposes to remember. There are many places in the Bible that stress this fleeting inhabitance of earth to us. I especially like how Paul says it in 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal". When we understand and belive this, we no longer have to fear anything we face on this earth.

I'm enjoying all the little critters out back this morning. Squirrels, chipmunks and many birds are feasting at the many feeders Mark has kept filled out back. I hope you will enjoy all that God blesses you with today. Stay safe and have a wonderful day, luv, Susan