Today more than ever we live in times of public murder via internet and awareness of dirty little secrets of wartime interrogation. Yet, this weekend we as a country got a breathe of fresh air by watching a little horse letting go of his inadequacy’s and race around a dirt track looking for his one shot at Glory. If a nation is so hungry for winners by getting behind a horse named Smarty Jones, then who are we not to embrace Glory of God and share it with others?

John Eldredge writes in his book Waking Dead, “God what do you have for my heart today?” He continues by saying, “you may be stunned by what he guides you into. I began day at six in morning asking God, “What do you have for my heart today Lord.” I had a few minutes to spare this morning (very unusual) so I had a cup of coffee at Starbucks. During that time a brain storm came to me and I wrote feverously for thirty minutes, jumped in car and decided to take a tour of new Wal-Mart food store in St. Matthews as I headed back to work. When I arrived at store it was not raining, as I began to leave it was pouring. I didn’t buy anything so I went out entrance way. At same time I realized it was raining an elderly woman coming into store asked me to help with fix her umbrella, it was stuck open. I’m thinking, not now lady my top’s down in my car and there are fish swimming in it, but calmly with a smile I help her. Then she wants me to fold it for her, you’ve got to be kidding me. She proceeds to thank me (as I swiftly move away) and she says, “by way there is a convertible in parking lot with top down.