Ideas are hard to come by this evening. Most of our area is gearing up for a winter outbreak that is due here in the morning. Looks like we will receive our coldest temperatures of the season over the next few days. Our neighbors to the west are really in a bit of a panic. You may not know but the Super Bowl is coming up this weekend. This years game is being played in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The news is reporting on how road crews are preparing for the expected outbreak of winter precipitation. Panic is the common reaction around here when the forecast calls for snow or sleet. Stores become wildly busy with people looking for anything they might need to ride out the weather. I will admit that at one time winter weather bugged me a great deal. My approach now is that it happens then it goes away. No amount of fretting will change that.

Seems like my original non idea concerned how we allow waiting to mess up our emotional or spiritual health. Some people seem to always be waiting for unspecified things to improve or change. This is a fast track to being depressed. Those who practice zen Buddhism do have one idea right. You can only live in the moment God gives you. This is one of those ideas that believers miss sometime. We are taught about our past being forgiven. We hear about a glorious day in the future. We can fall short in living in the right now. God's present tense escapes us while we journey through life.

When you choose to wait for some vague better in your future then you lose out now. There is nothing basically wrong with having a bright future. We all need events to look forward to as we live in the now. Just don't neglect the possibility of the present tense. Trying to live life based on forecasts or predictions is a dangerous approach. You will be basing your existence on ideas that may or may not come true. God's truth is indeed timeless but it works as good right now as it does in its promises. We do not have to spend our time just waiting for a better day. Being open to God's present tense will build us up as we move into His tomorrow.

Bro. Trey