How are you?.....I don't know.

"Rainy days and Mondays always  get me down." Actually it was hearing the Carpenters sing that song that always got me down. Today's not Monday and it's not raining...yet. But it's gray and rain is on the way. It's one of those mixed blessing thingys. We need the rain to bring to life the flowers and grass that have been trying to pretend it's spring and to flush the annual influx of omnipresent yellow pollen out of the air, our eyes, our noses and off the surface of everything known to mankind. On the other hand it's the weekend and we're in a coastal community. Plus tomorrow is Sunday and the senior pastor of one church I was part of once said that, "Three drops of rain will keep away ten Methodists."
So basically it's one of those days when if someone walked up and asked me, "How are ya?" I would have to say, "I really don't know." Some days are just like that. But that's okay. God knows how I am and where I am with his plan and, after all, he is the only scorekeeper that really counts anyway.
Speaking of scores, I was sorely disappointed at the poor showing of my Duke team Thursday night. But as my favorite preacher reminded me, those are just 18-22 year old boys whose only pay is a college scholarship and in the grand scheme of things it has little significance. Timely enough one of my devotions this morning was on keeping things in perspective. Psalm 46 reminds us to "Be still and know that I am God." Not easy in a world that often seems to be spinning out of control. But I remember the statement: "I don't know what tomorrow holds, but I know who holds tomorrow."

So "What in the world" is going on and ultimately how do I feel? As the songs goes that Willing Heart sings so well....."I Feel Good. I feel good. I know that I'm redeemed and I feel good."

What in the world.....?

The name of this blog arose from the question I seem to ask most often. What in the world is going on here? What in the world are you doing? What in the world are they thinking? What in the world am I doing? What in the world will God call me to dive into next? As Yule Brinner said in the movie "The King and I,"     "etcetera, etcetera, etcetera."

I really don't know why I suddenly decided to start doing a blog except that I was invited to do so while perusing the terrific blog of a niece of mine who moved from the city to the outback in the middle of the hinterlands of Florida and somehow grows wonderful and nutritious vegetables out of the sand, raises chickens and multiplies cats.

Maybe I thought that the 17 irons I have in the fire already were not enough to keep my mind occupied. They say, "The idle mind is the devil's playground." With all the areas of endeavor my mind is into, it's surprising the devil can find a way in (which of course he does since, while we try to live for the moment, the devil lives for every spare second.)

My niece's blog is both practical and inspirational and I'm not at all sure this one will be either. She is into photography, cooking, bread-making, agriculture, enjoying nature, her husband "Country Boy" who is an EMT working to save lives when he's not busy being the family comedian, and cats. (I have only one. I've never been able to count all of theirs at one time.) I on the other hand am into cooking, avoiding bread making, making disciples of men and being "the preacher's wife."

I guess you and I will just have to see What in the World.....? this blog becomes .