we are just a wisp of fog...

a new friend of mine from vegas on facebook gave me the news that danny gans died yesterday morning. that news really bothered me but it also again lives out the reality of james 4.14, (ms), you don't know the first thing about tomorrow. you're nothing but a wisp of fog, catching a brief bit of sun before disappearing. danny gans left his show thursday night at the encore thinking he would be there friday night.

i lived in vegas during all of danny's career there. this 52 year old CHRISTian was a favorite performer in the city, earning the title of las vegas' best all around entertainer 11 times in an annual local newspaper poll. i remember when he debuted as a headliner at the stratosphere. from there he moved to the rio and later to his own self-titled theater at the mirage where he performed for eight years and then in february of 2009, he debuted his award winning show at the new wynn resort, encore.

in his biography on his web page it told of the excitement of his future. it said, that danny "has found his new home in the gorgeous, first class resort, where he will continue to break box office records and delight capacity houses." but his death shows us that we are nothing but a wisp of fog. the niv translation says it this way, you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

our life is like a mist, a fog, that rolls in in the morning but burns off by noon. none of us knows how long we're going to live.

our life goes so fast from hot wheels to wheelchair. diapers – dignity – decay. life's brief. so we must watch out and not presume we have the rest of our life. don't take tomorrow for granted.

that is brought out in a sentence at the end of an article on danny's death where it says, "vegas.com customers who purchased tickets to gans' show will receive a full refund."

don't waist a single day of your life without GOD in it.

now here is a key, matthew 6.34 (ms), give your entire attention to what GOD is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. GOD will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.

live one day at a time, that's how GOD says to face the uncertainty of our future. plan for the future but you can only live now. matthew says, don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. we should plan for the future but take advantage of the present. rick warren says, "life is what happens to us while we're planning something else."

also just because our future is uncertain and brief doesn't mean that we should get uptight, get paralyzed, panic and worry. it just makes us motivated to trust GOD more. you put your trust in GOD and HE will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.

just some thoughts from the front porch...