Life Is Like a Country Song

These are real titles (really bad, that is) of country songs

Don't Believe My Heart Can Stand Another You

Here's A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares) 

High Cost of Low Living

How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away? 

How Come Your Dog Don't Bite Nobody But Me? 

I Keep Forgettin' I Forgot About You  

I Still Miss You Baby...  But My Aim is Getting Better

If The Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me 

If Today Was a Fish, I'd Throw It Back In 

I'm In Love With A Capital U

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna be a Diamond Someday) 

Mama Get The Hammer (There's A Fly On Papa's Head)

Pick Me Up On Your Way Down

Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox When I Die

Queen Of My Double-Wide Trailer 

She Got The Gold Mine And I Got The Shaft 

Thank God And Greyhound She's Gone

The Bridge Washed Out and I Can't Swim and My Baby's On the Other Side

The Last Word in Lonesome is Me

Timber... I'm Fallin In Love

Walk Out Backwards Slowly So I'll Think You're Walking In

You Can Lock Me Up in Jail & Throw Away the Key, But You Can't Keep My Face from Breaking Out

You Can't Haul a U-Haul Into Heaven

You Done Stomped On My Heart (and You Mashed That Sucker Flat)

You're The Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly

You're either laughing or groaning. In country music it's all good or all bad or just badly titled. Mark Lowry said that life is like a roller coaster with ups and downs and twists and curves. Jesus said, I have come that they may have life and have it more abundantly. Mark says that means the ups and downs are just bigger. Mark also says his favorite Bible verse is "And it came to pass" ...it didn't come to stay. I've revised it to say This too shall pass...like a kidney stone. I don't have first hand experience of this but after spending time with Mark D. at the hospital last weekend, it's BAD! Paul says, Rejoice in the Lord ALWAYS and again I say rejoice. He also said that whatever state I am in; feast or famine, good or bad, (my interpretation) I will be content. 

Sometimes it's hard to be content when the world throws life at you. Life is about choosing. Joshua said it, choose you this day whom you will serve, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live. (Deut. 30:19) How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver! (Prov. 16:16) 

All this rambling to say...today, how will you choose to live your life? This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it.