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          Me again!   I'm writing this on June 26th but hoping that it is July 10 and we are still on vacation.  It is pretty weird writing an article for a future date.  For one thing, I have no idea what will actually be occurring on July 10.  That's two weeks away.  (I'll feel really silly if the Lord has come back in the meantime: it means that I wrote this for nothing!)  Planning a future event as if it were an accomplished fact is a chancy thing to do.  And it runs counter to Scripture!  

Look at James 4:13-17
 13Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money."
14Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
15Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."
16As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.
17Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

          I wrote this article because I promised I would have it to our Tech Team before I left for vacation.  I have no assurance that July 10 is going to come...or that I will still be around then.  We must all remember that we only have THIS day: and God wants us to us it for His glory.

          Hope to see you soon.