From the Home Place

January 23, 2026

Good morning! I’m sorry about not writing yesterday. Our day was consumed with being too busy baking and making yesterday. This morning, the ground is completely white outside, with more of that fun stuff coming before today is over and then 8 degrees below zero for a low tonight.

Oh ya, let’s don’t forget the 40 plus mph wind that is supposed to show up today as well! Tomorrow may be a tough day for travel, but we will if we can. When the wind gets to cooking, our many errands around town could become difficult as well, but it is winter. With all of the warm weather we have had up to this point, we are that much closer to Spring!

Remember when you were a short-legged person, the days, months and years seemed to drag on and on. Now most days have a jet engine tied to them. Usually, our day is completed way before the work is.

My favorite Uncle used to remind me that “we’ll get done today what we get done today, the rest will still be there waiting for us tomorrow.” The mathematical approach to that equation would suggest that if we get more tasks completed today, we will have fewer to do tomorrow, but we all know that real life doesn’t work that way. It would appear that no matter how much we get done in a day, there is always way more to do the next day, and the next days after that.

I sometimes wonder if keeping us “too busy” isn’t Satan’s main tool against evangelism? Just think about it, we all have bigger, better and faster than American’s have ever known, yet we spend less time living life with friends and family. When I was a kid, we worked hard all day long, but then when evening came, we didn’t watch TV, we did something as a family, or someone would stop by and we would play cards until it was time for everyone to consider “calling it a day.” When that time came, we would all go to bed and go to sleep, satisfied with the day.

Now days, we all work all day long, and then we attend meetings or watch the idiot box until it’s time to go to bed. and then we stew about all of the things we didn’t get done today and tomorrow is going to be even busier. Yet, we spend less time sharing life with those around us.

You see my friends; our time is going faster than ever before, and it seems that we are all busier than ever before. Yet there is less time spent building into the lives of those around us. I’m not sure that is the way our Lord has this thing called life planned out. Either Satan is keeping us too busy, or perhaps I have trouble keeping my priorities of life straight?

The same Lord who stated, “each day has enough troubles of its own,” also taught us to pray, “give us this day our daily bread.” The Lord still provides today, but for some reason we think we have to work harder to get the bread? For years I have said that “I’m so busy trying to make a living that I don’t have any time to live.” Yet for each of us, we will live until we die. Perhaps we need to define “living” as time spent with others instead of defining it as making money?

We will never get all of our work done; however, we may only get one more opportunity to visit with someone we will cross paths with today. Perhaps we should make people the priority and get what work we can get done, going to bed satisfied with one more day of life!

Keeping priorities straight with you, Neal