Saved

It's now the 21st and Noah hasn't made his debut yet.  I'm not sure how I feel about that.  I admit I'm in a little bit of a whirlwind of emotion and thought right now.  A lot of it has to do with watching others in the way they live out their lives.  Some of it has to do with figuring out that fine line between being happy with me and yet at the same time never settling for just being content to stay in my comfort zone.  A lot of times I feel like I am able to think of every single solitary person I know at the same time and my biggest want is to have all of you together in one place:

The people that I've offended or hurt, the people that I've built up, the people that have hurt me, the people that have helped me, the people that I'm watching go through the worst time of their lives right now, the people that have everything going their way right now.

And I'd love to be able to get you to see how special every single one of you in every single one of those categories (and more) are to me.

I kinda wish I could save the world, you know?  Have you ever felt that way?  You see all the hurt and you wanna just save it?

The good news is that the hurt has already been saved.  The answer is in the very first bible verse I ever memorized.  My brother and I were at a puppet show performed at an event called Jesus Northwest back in the mid-80's.  It goes:

"For God so loved that world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have everlasting life."

May you believe in Him.  Today.