It was the best of times...It was the worst of times.

I thought the other day how easily we are lulled into a stooper. I don't live "awake" all the time. Okay I know I have already lost some of you, but seriously how many of us truly live. We just go about our day and not think about much. We go to work and become perhaps annoyed by those very people who do live each day to the fullest. I read today this quote from the great Mr. Lewis and he said, "The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.Remember one is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen." I do this all the time! Yes, our times could be labled as unhappy, but why would they not be? I mean seriously we live in a FALLEN world. But our gracious Lord gives us the ability to not know the future and for that I am so grateful. 
   I quite frankly enjoy contentment. I have been at some pretty unhealthy "happy" places and Satan makes his playground in those reveries. So delight yourself in the Lord. He is constant amidst these troubles and don't be mistaken they are bad. But we must only press forward.

Now here is where I might truly lose some of you. Let's think about the disaster in Haiti. It is bad yes. But being overwhelmed by the grief and desperation is pointless. Literally pointless. Yes we ache for them, but then we do what we are called to do. Serve. Be productive. Share the gospel. And here is the deal-perhaps in all of this, this is what Haiti needed. Think about it. Restructuring can happen now. Rebuilding. People know more about Haiti then they ever did. People are listening. And they will forget, all humanitarian efforts fade when they are solely done for morality's sake, but people are paying attention now and things are being made new. This is something to rejoice about.