As the picture of this handsome boy shows...Easter 2011 has come and gone. Time is whooshing past so rapidly nowadays and there are so many things I want to be doing, but don't have time or resources for. I very much want to spend more time at home with my family, start a disc golf business, write a book, read a book, play more disc golf, and then there are my growing desires to paint and compose new songs. Not to get too poetic and whiny about it, but I often feel trapped in a speeding life that’s filled with untapped potential and unfulfilled dreams…not a good feeling.

Also, we've been enduring the most unrelenting stormy weather I've ever experienced these past few weeks. Severe thunderstorm after severe thunderstorm, flooding, tornado watches and warnings are much, much more common than sunshine. This of course limits our time spent outdoors on weekends, which is bothersome to say the least, since it was a really long cold winter for southern Indiana.

So, after rereading the above I'm reminded that Paul instructed the Philippians to do everything without complaining, an instruction which I am clearly doing really well with. (Please note my sarcasm… which is almost like complaining about complaining)

This train of thought, however, takes me to Jesus’ words about the sparrow, which is always really encouraging to me. He said that not even a sparrow falls from the sky apart from God the Father. Therefore, even the littlest details of my life don’t go unnoticed, which means that all the little things that I don’t like and complain about, God not only allows, He can and use them to my eternal good and is actively doing so now.

Thank God for Jesus! He is risen and, in Him, so are we by grace through faith.