Today

Well, my friends, as the clock ticks forward, I find myself closer and closer to the birth of our second child, Nolan Landis, and ever more exhausted and pushed to my limits. I just want to let you know that I will do my best to meet you here each day and share a morsel from God's Word, but I expect that it will be sporadic, at best, for a while. I appreciate your understanding, and I will be sure to let you all know when our little guy decides to join us out here. Of course, then life will really be crazy, and exhausted won't even be able to cover how I'll feel, but I will still meet you here when I can - I can't imagine that I will be able to stay away for too long.

I just want to let you all know that God has you on my heart daily, as I lift you up and pray for you. Just the thought of you all out there brings me great joy, and so I hope that I will be able to get right back into this very, very soon! Again, thank you for your patience and understanding. Take care, and we'll talk soon.

Serving,
Andrea Sipe


James 4:13-14
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.


I love the saying "Yesterday is the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift, that’s why it’s called the present." Truly, today is all we have. Yesterday is gone - nothing we can do about it, and tomorrow is not yet here, and we have no guarantee that it ever will be. Today is what we have, it’s what we’ve been given. So, what are we going to do with it? Are we going to dwindle it away, pushing our passions, our goals, our life up to "tomorrow"? Or are we going to live it, and use it - fill it with all that we can?

Now, I’m not saying that we have to go-go-go, as society so loves to tell us. And I’m not saying that planning is a bad thing. I am saying that we need to stop planning for tomorrow, when we’re not living today - continually pushing life away toward the future. Do you have a friend to call or a letter to write? Why wait? Do you have a child to love and play with, or someone who needs to hear of your love? Do you have a dream to fulfill - to write a book, or become a photographer? We do not know what tomorrow brings, if tomorrow comes at all. So, let’s take advantage of today, each and every day, for "today" is all we will ever have.