Earth Day 2008

today marks the 10,950th day my parents have been married (excluding leap days). happy 30th earth day, mom and dad!
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so gosh... what happened today? nothing. i'm just in a mood where it's "here i am" and that's it. i'm not depressed. i'm not on a cloud. i exist. and that's about how the last couple of days have gone.
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besides the obviously awesome passage in isaiah 52:13-53:12, i read a few more isaiah passages which piqued my interest today...
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55:6 - "seek the lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near." - could this be explaining why god seems so quiet at times: that he's not 'near' now? this thought may discourage some, but it encourages me, b/c it means he's there while explaining the silence. though i can't hear him, i'm comforted by his existence.
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57:1-2 - "the righteous perish, and no one ponders it in his heart; devout men are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death." - a drunk driver swerves left of center and kills a mother and her daughter... but he lives. the mother and daughter are devout followers of jesus christ and go home with him to be in heaven. i've never been in this situation, but through the eyes of this passage in isaiah, i think we should find rest too, knowing they are at peace, no longer subject to the evil of this world. again, i haven't lived through anything this traumatic, so i can't say for sure how i'd react... but from the far outside, i'd say if you could choose only one of the three to live, i'd choose the drunk. the other two are already heavenbound. the drunk now has a second chance at giving his life over to christ. if he died, it'd be hell. but if he deserves it, then so does every other person who sins against god... does that include you?
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58 (all of it) - on true fasting. the whole chapter is very good. think about it the next time you give up eating for a day or give up something for lent. it's so much more than just not having something you want/need...
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we got to go for a walk around the block before the girls went to bed tonight. it was nice not only to be out and smell the flowers, hear the birds, and feel the cool setting sun, but i haven't gotten to see much of my neighborhood yet. i took my camera, but didn't use it.
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a picture by me: