Thursday morning was like any other day.  I hit the snooze 6 times, got up and around, and went to work.  I was in a meeting with our student ministry staff.  Then I got a text from my wife, who is pregnant by the way, that says, "I am sick.  Just threw up and I am going home from work."  So I let my team know and headed to the house to be her nurse.  When we got home we called our doctor to see what medicine she could take and not take etc.  That is when it happened.  The nurse said, "If she still has pain in 45 minutes you need to come to the hospital and go delivery so they can begin to monitor her."   WHAT?  DELIVERY?  Panic totally set in!  I gave my wife some medicine and in a crazed whirlwind I began to pack a suitcase, grab the cameras, and put the carseat in the car.  Just for clarification my wife did not go into labor, so we did not have our baby; BUT......

It was at that moment that I realized this baby girl (Logan Hannah) could be here literally at any moment.  Everything changed at that  moment.  Every call from my wife scares the crap out of me.  All those toys and bouncers have to get put together now.  Have we saved enough money thoughts are racign through your head.  It has so effected to way that I live in the past two days.  Every moment that I have to just be with my wife and go on dates all the sudden seem more important than ever.  Saving money more important.  Reading parenting books more important.  Prayer more important.  Getting nursery totally setup more important.  Every moment is now more valuable!

I remember a preacher one time asking the question what if we lived in such way that Jesus could come back any moment.  How would it change the way we live our lives?  After this week I have gone back to that question and I would have to say a lot.  What if as followers of Jesus we realized that our time to be undershepherds and ministers was quickly coming to an end?  I definitely see that is something that is lacking in my life.  An urgency and value of every moment that I have to glorify the name of Christ.  I need to live with that passion! 

So today I want to make a choice to love God and love people as though any moment my opportunity to share that love with the world as you know it now could be my last.  Father give me the strength to follow you with wreckless abandon!