Forty-Day Immersion: Day 9

The world is unprincipled. It's dog-eat-dog out there! The world doesn't fight fair. But we don't live or fight our battles that way - never have and never will. 10:4 The tools of our trade aren't for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. 10:5 We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. 10:6 Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity. 2 Corinthians 10:3-6, The Message

Day 9

Today was Cinco de Mayo.

Today was a very freeing day.

It was one of those that put energy into you, and give you a sense of accomplishment.

For some reason, even the things that didn’t work out as I had planned still served as a propelling force, forward.

A project that has been stalled for years is taking shape, and it is on schedule for completion for the first time. Even though it is difficult and laborious, there is a feeling of accomplishment from completing a few paragraphs that are so different from how I am wired to write that it is like writing in a foreign language in which I am almost illiterate.

It is a good discipline, and I have the help and encouragement of good people to get it done. Like all good disciplines, it has a sense of validity even though no one else may see tangible results for some time – in the case of this project, a year from now.

Today has felt like an important marker on measuring a life of obedience being built into a new level of maturing.

Today, a year from now, Cinco de Mayo will be a celebration of the freedom of completion for me, by God’s enablement.

I have planned for it to be a very, very good day.

When is your next very, very good day planned?

Bueno, y hasta la vista!