Friday Night Lite

I guess you can tell where my mind is tonight. It's 9:15 pm at my local Caribou Coffee, the half moon is off to the south and I am told a line of storms is heading this way. I was just called by my wife to ask me to stop for ice cream on the way home. My decaf coffee cooler is almost gone. And weather bug has just this moment told me there's an alert-a severe thunderstorm watch until 3:00 a.m.

It was a long and interesting day. Had a meeting in the Cities that gave me a chance to do some more reflecting on my call to ministry and how it has evolved and pulled and pushed over the last 10 years in particular. I then had lunch with one of my top A-list friends and we celebrated his book contract and soon to be published book. (This also spurred me to move toward more work on a couple things myself.) Then I sat with another friend and we reviewed where we both have been in the past year. Finally we had a celebration dinner for our daughter finishing her work on her MBA. Tomorrow she and I go off on a road trip to Milwaukee to see Miller Park for the first time (after years of having seen games at old County Stadium.)

Each day has its own rhythm and purposes and events that make it what it is. There's some real power to the AA idea of One Day At a Time. Of course that's the only way we can experience life. But more than that it reminds us to take the day as it comes and celebrate what it has to offer. You can't get much better than that.

That's about as heavy as it gets. But most days that's what it's all about.