Tomorrow

Picking a blog title to me ranks right up there with picking a child’s name ---- highly stressful. Either way, people will talk about what you pick. Can you believe she named her blog (child) that? At least with a blog, no one will hate you for life. Can you believe my mom named me (fill in the blank). For me, I loved my name until I married, then I became the anonymous of all anonymous. If the witness protection program ever needs a good, common name, Jennifer Smith is the way to go. After all, anywhere I go, I am asked for some other identifying factor: address, phone number, etc. just so I can be found in the system. However, this is about my blog name, not a rant about my own name.

For my blog, I thought and thought and Jamison finally came up with the winning name. He suggested using a line from a movie that also had significant meaning to me. My all time favorite movie is Gone with the Wind. After all, Scarlett is the southern belle of all southern belles. Who wouldn’t want to be surrounded by a host of Southern callers waiting on you hand and foot? Plus she’s a spitfire and I can’t imagine why I would be drawn to such a character trait. As the movie ends, Scarlett leaves us with the parting line to how she will win back the devilish Rhett Butler only to exclaim, “I’ll think about that tomorrow.” Not very spiritual I know, but as I have thought about it, time and time again I have been told in this stage of Grayson’s life is to “enjoy the moment.” The laundry can wait, the beds can wait, phone calls can wait, the worries can wait, but your child is only at this stage for a moment. So there are things that I have just chosen to “think about tomorrow.”

Matthew 6:25-34
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.