I’m so happy I can cry.

I had a long day at work today, so I treated myself to my current favorite Starbucks snack: a lemon loaf. I was eating it on the way out of the hospital and then I saw my bus drive by. I quickly ran after it, and luckily, it got held up at a red light, so I had enough time to get to the bus stop. As I was nearing the stop, a big chunk of my lemon loaf fell onto the floor… The bus pulled up ahead of me, so I didn’t have time to lament, but as I waited to board, I did look back one last time. A delicious loaf, alone, on the sidewalk. At least the pigeons will be happy.

Colbert is the best:

Colbert, who abandoned his own 2008 presidential bid after the South Carolina Democratic Party voted to keep him off its primary ballot, said he was still willing to be Huckabee’s running mate, as Huckabee apparently had promised earlier. Colbert said his “foreign policy” experience — trips to Sandals resorts in Jamaica, the Bahamas — would help answer Huckabee critics that the former Arkansas governor lacked such.

Just in case, though, Colbert then gave Huckabee a chance to take back his running mate promise publicly.

“Stephen, please, be my running mate,” Huckabee said.

“Yes, a thousand times yes,” was Colbert’s answer.

I don’t want to elaborate on the background of this resolution over a public forum, but I’ll need your help to keep me accountable because I’ll fail on my own. Briefly, I want to make excellent choices.

Philippians 1:9-11
“And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ - to the glory and praise of God.”

From Our Daily Bread
Every choice we make creates a ripple effect on our lives as well as on the lives of others. The choices we have made throughout life determine where we are and what we are becoming.

Choices are also telling. What we really want, love, and think show up in the choices we make.

It’s no wonder then that Paul urged us to make “excellent” choices—choices that emanate from a heart fully committed to Jesus. He stated that when our love abounds in knowledge and discernment, we are able to understand what is best, so that we may “approve the things that are excellent” (Phil. 1:9-10). Excellent choices are the proof of a life that is deeply committed to Jesus and His ways, and they have the ripple effect of filling our lives “with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God” (v.11).