One Day at a Time

Let me tell you another fun story (although many of you may have already heard it).  It was our wedding day.  We had just exited the sanctuary after being introduced as Mr. and Mrs. Streu, and we had just a few solitary seconds with each other.  We gave each another kiss and then took our rings off to look at the inscriptions.  What did we find?  We found that we had both had the same thing inscribed in each ring.  This was not planned and incidental in our eyes, completely intentional in God's.  "What is the inscription," you ask.  One Day at a Time - Philippians 4:6-7 (abbreviated of course...quite a bit on Jess'...she has a small finger).

This phrase, "One Day at a Time," has been something that we have taken turns reminding each other throughout our whole relationship with each other...even way before the proposal.  For example, we have to make a really tough decision in a short amount of time and we don't know what to do and we try to freak out.  Then, one of us remembers and says, "One day at a time," and the other takes a deep breath and says, "Oh yeah...you're right."

Well, this brings me to yet another reason I need to thank my beautiful bride.  It has certainly been her turn to remember these past few weeks.  Time for another illustration:

Me:  "Yea...I'm halfway through treatments.  But wait, that means I still have 3 weeks left."
Jess:   "Billy...you can't look at it that way.  Just keep going one day at a time."
Me:  (deep breath) "Yeah...you're right."

It is amazing how just those 4 words can bring so much peace for us.  I even wrote a song for Jess about it a few years ago during a time that we really needed to live it out.  The Bible teaches us that we must learn from yesterday and not worry about tomorrow.  That leaves us to make today count.  Probably a lesson that we have heard many times, but probably forget even more often.

I will add that I was the one remembering when we only had a week to wrap things up in Bosnia to get back to America.  I think Jess and I make a great team.