I'm not dead - but I die daily

It's been a long time since I posted here. You might have thought I'd died, but I'm very much alive. I have managed to put up a couple of post on the family, sermon and church sites, but I honestly have had neither the time nor the inspiration to post anything here lately. So much has happened since my last post:

• One of our church families lost a son, who was a member at a sister church.
• One of our newest members passed away, leaving a grieving widow and parents-in-law in our fellowship.
• Two ladies in our church spent Christmas in the hospital. One was recovering from a heart attack, the other from pneumonia.
  
• My son has come home from Fort Huachuca to spend the holiday with us, and has now gone back to Arizona.
• We've picked Terri's sister and niece up from the Airport, and taken them back after Christmas.
• We spent a couple of days in Eastman with my mother and my brother's family.
• I managed to get BOTH of our cars stuck in the mud on the way home from Mom's.
• I've thrown my back out and had extremely limited mobility these last few days.
• I got to watch the Georgia Bulldogs route the Hawaii Warriors in the 2008 Sugar Bowl!

There has been a lot to cheer about and a lot to cry about. Every year brings some sunshine and some rain. The last two weeks of December were a microcosm of that principle. But praise God that he is with us no matter what the weather.