This is the Day

Too powerful not to post this:

"This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it."
Psalm 118:24 NKJV
Some days the road seems too long and the climb too steep. Max Lucado describes them as days when "Hope is Hindenberged by crisis. You never leave the hospital bed or wheelchair. You wake up in the same prison cell, the cemetery dirt is still fresh, the dismissal letter still folded in your pocket, the other side of the bed still empty. 'This is the day' includes divorce days, final-exam days, surgery days, tax days, sending-your-firstborn-off-to-college days. God made this day. He knows the details of each wrenching moment. He isn't on holiday. He still holds the conductor's baton, sits in the cockpit, and occupies the universe's only throne. "We will rejoice and be glad in it!" Oops, there's another word we'd like to edit: in. Perhaps we could swap it for after? Or through, or over. 'I'll rejoice when this day ends!' Paul rejoiced in prison. David wrote psalms in the wilderness; Paul and Silas sang in jail; the Hebrew children remained resolute in the fiery furnace; John saw Heaven in his exile, and Jesus prayed in the garden of pain. You no longer have yesterday. It slipped away as you slept. You don't yet have tomorrow. You can't spend its money, celebrate its achievements or resolve its riddles. Days are bite-sized portions of life: 84,000 heartbeats, 1,440 minutes, a rotation of the earth, a sunrise and sunset, a gift of 24 unlived, unexplored hours. And if you can stack one good day on another, you'll link together a good life. 'This is the day', live in it."

Amen! I'm living and exploring from my cubicle this morning!

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One Ring to Rule Them All slash I'm a nerd

Local Shire Hobbit Bilbo Baggins, relative of Frodo Baggins, is living a quiet, peaceful life until Gandalf the Grey walks into his home with a band of wandering dwarfs and drags poor Bilbo into a quest that entails defeating a dragon, a three way battle of men, dwarfs and monsters and, most importantly of all, leads Bilbo into contact with a peculiar ring that has had and will have a great impact on the future of their world.

Yes, this is synopsis for the 2011 prequel to the Fellowship of the Rings. I cannot wait. Peter Jackson is a writer. And they have the original Gandalf, Gollum, Aragorn, etc. I am pretty pumped. There is also "The Hobbit 2" which links the first Hobbit movie to the Lord of the Rings as we know it.

Maxim on the move

Is this a good or a bad thing? I'll let you be the judge of that.



‘Maxim’ magazine moves offices to Franklin, Tennessee

Alpha Media Group, the company that produces Maxim and Blender magazines, is moving its back-office operations from New York City to Franklin.

Alpha CEO Stephen Duggan said the company's finance, manufacturing, distribution, office services and digital technology divisions will move into a floor at the Dover Center on Seaboard Lane in December.
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Print, sales, marketing and most of the magazine group’s creative team will remain in New York.

Maxim is among the most successful young men’s lifestyle magazines in the country, reaching more than 12.5 million readers each month. Music magazine Blender reaches about 2 million readers monthly. Alpha also produces stuffmagazine.com and two other Web sites visited by about 5 million users a month.

High rental costs in midtown Manhattan are part of what pushed Alpha to leave the Big Apple, Duggan said. The company, which announced layoffs earlier this year, looked at Atlanta, Dallas, Austin, Texas; and several other cities before choosing Franklin.