So, who knows what the future holds for us? To be more to the point, who knows what the future holds for you? Today's blog takes place during weather fit for the middle of May than the middle of March. Tomorrow looks like a totally different environment. We are waiting on the rain and cold weather to strike us perhaps for the last time this season. There is one problem with this. Forecasters began calling for this change to happen in the middle of last week. Here we are a week later still waiting for the conditions to change. Did you know that after only a few hours that the weather forecast is almost worthless? That is how little meteorologists can predict the future.

Fox Business interviewed a man last night who is predicting the price of oil to go up to $300 a barrel soon. Let us all hope he is dead wrong in his prediction. We were to begin recovery from our economic crisis toward the end of this year. That was the guess only a few weeks ago. Now, even Warren Buffett is looking into 2010 as the earliest for any upturn in the financial news. If oil spikes as high as the one gentleman predicted then it may take years for any recovery to begin. The Dow Jones seems to be betting against recovery now. Let's all hope these guys are wrong and times get better soon. By the way, my limited opinion is our economy is going through an adjustment to a 21st century understanding of economics. It could be we never see the various numbers return to normal. We may soon see a new normal. It doesn't have to be bad but it may not be measured the same.

We all want to know the future. How amazing would it be to return to the 1970s knowing what we know now? Imagine all the wagers we could make! Think of how you could amaze your friends with predictions of what would happen in sports or entertainment. You could really know the future but it wouldn't be quite the same. We might be able to predict the future in that scenario but it would be time we lived through already. Perhaps there is a reason we are given this one life to experience.

Last week I mentioned one of my TV shows is being canceled. It's theme is similar to this post. The story revolves around a policeman who somehow is whisked off to 1973 after an incident in 2008. So last Saturday night I was channel surfing. We have satellite which we cannot imagine living without. When I got to the BBC station (British Broadcasting) there was my show! Well, it wasn't really my show but the British version of what we have. Turns out that my luck could not be any better. It was the series finale that laid out what happens in the end. To make a long story short, all live happily ever after...in 1973. The lead character, Sam decides to return to where he felt most alive. So no matter what happens with the American version at least there is the knowledge of how life turns out.

Not even Nostradamus knows for sure how this world will go. We do have the words of the Revelation but most of us shy away from its dark themes. We even have no guarantees about when our life ends. My heart truly aches at those people we lose at much too young of an age. A man who was living on borrowed time helped me get a handle on this. He told me of living as much as he could with the time he had left. I love that he did exactly that. We talked one time about living and dying. It occurred to me that none of us have any promises on how long we have. In fact, I said that I envied him because he knew somewhat of his limits. It's my contention that his living so well put off for a year his death. So perhaps that is all we can do. We take each day as it comes. We fill it up with God and turn it loose. Someone said we can live life in such a way that when we wake up Satan panics. We are on the loose again. No matter the weather or the economy let's live in the present to make the future better.

Bro. Trey