Back in the late afternoon of January 12th, the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince was rocked, swayed and pummeled by a massive 7.0 earthquake.  The earthquake destroyed most of the city leaving the survivors in rubble trying to find the rest of their families, fighting for food, and sleeping in city parks.  The reports and images coming out of Haiti are graphic, tragic, and unbelievable.  There are the stories of miracles like the little boy who was rescued alive after 8 days in the rubble.  There are stories of utter pain as children lost parents and parents lost children.

February has just one holiday since Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays were combined.  And that special day devoted to love - Valentine's Day.  So men, don't forget to do something romantic for your sweetie, because she deserves it... and she probably already has something special for you.

New Year's resolutions... these words strike fear into the hearts of almost all of us as we find ourselves now approaching the first week or two of 2010.  Late in 2009, as we looked back on the previous year, we often found that we hadn't accomplished all that we had intended to do.  So we looked ahead to a fresh start in the coming year, and boldly made proclamations that "This year things will be different!"

"Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: who, being in the very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.  And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death - even death on a cross!

- Paul, to the church in Philippi  (Philippians 2:5-8)