“Today House”
Matt. 6:34: “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
A friend and accountability partner acknowledged that he was “. . . tired of being quarantined.” Who of us is not tired of being quarantined, I wonder? Honesty is a key component of accountability (and friendship), so it was good that he admitted what is real for him. He is also determined to be grateful today.
After I read my friend’s post, my mind jumped immediately to an incredibly sad Adam-12 rerun I was watching yesterday on Me TV. A petty criminal had gotten out of prison. He was an old and broken man who just wanted “to go home.” When a police officer asked him where home was for him, he said, “Prison.” The police officer who had arrested him the last time the old guy went to prison tried to get the con into a halfway house that was called “Today House.”
One of the police officers who went to check out the halfway house asked the man who was in charge about the name of the place, “Today House”. The man (who himself had been in prison) replied, “Oh, that comes from a common saying in prisons: “Don’t worry about tomorrow; just try to get through today.”
Good counsel! I am doing pretty well with my own quarantine. That is because I live in Today House. I hope you are too.
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