TRIFECTA....

Trifecta---and I'm not talking pari-mutual betting here.
I'm talking a three-win run of grand events. A threesome of good times.
I love musical theater---that's a given in my life. I try for these "musical" treats throughout the year. However, at Christmas, they pull at my heartstrings in that "Christmasy" way!
Why? Because at Christmas I tend to be with family and other loved ones when I attend. That's the key---according to both Church Health Center's, Dr. Scott Morris's, recent CAcolumn and son Buddy's recent sermon 12/4. The gist of both, "we might forget what gifts we have received but we don't forget time in relationships." 

In the last 15 days, I have been blessed to see 3 musical events with those dear to my heart:  
 1) "Christmas Tradition" low country style in Savannah, GA w/ dear California girls, Gigi & Bonnie

     2) "A Tennessee Christmas with Amy Grant and Vince Gill at the mother church of "county music," the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN w/ "my" Molly & long time friend, Doris, after our "dinner" (think yummy fried bologna sandwich for me) at Robert's Western World 

    3) "Take the Soul Train to Christmas"  a production of Hattiloo, the largest of only 4 black repertory theaters in the US, with hubby---enough said, as he is always my "willing escort."

Music and food are great backgrounds, up front seats are nice...but "up close and personal" relationships are what life is all about. Christmas always reminds me of that! 

Just do the next right thing…….

1/29/11 We have lots of these NIKE swooshes around our house to remind us to “Just Do It.” But I think there should be delineation to ”it.” Doing “it” in life can be very self-serving if we don’t define “it.”

Confession in Thursday’s blog (1/27/11) showed that my “it” is sometimes defined by ease and convenience. I’m still musing on that conviction.

The Hasslens’ recent Twitter entry shared, “Hardly anything worth doing is easy, until we get to heaven.” (John Piper) The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. is quoted as saying "The time is always right to do what is right." II Corinthians 13:7, Paul states "Now we pray to God that you do no wrong; not that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do what is right,...." Even a recent SGA sign outside the HHS cafeteria had a reminder for me, “It’s important to do the right thing even if it’s not convenient.”(There's that convicting term again.)

All of those comments, quotes, and signs just kept hammering at me. But God……………lead me to my blue blog folder.

That folder had a CA article notation for “just do the next right thing” that not only delineated “it” for me but also gave an antidote of encouragement---aka prayer. Dr. Scott Morris told of an encounter with Dr. John Nash, who without prompting, shared the following: "Every morning I pray for one thing. Courage. I pray for courage to do the next right thing in the eyes of God.”

When I choose to do “it” in the upcoming days in my own life, I hope this wisdom will stick with me!