Today’s Top 50 Person: Harvey Ellis. Altough I’ve known him for over 20 years, Harvey is someone who has stepped into my inner circle in the past 4 years or so, and I can honestly say I don’t know a more humble, servant-hearted guy in the entire world. Harvy genuinely loves God and truly loves people in a way that honors the Lord. He is really quick to catch himself before he says anything negative, and he takes great care to go out of his way to praise and compliment people around him. I am so thankful that God has brought Harvey into my life. He makes me want to be like him, and like Jesus!

Today’s Christian Song: Barrier by Greg X. Volz. Signature song off a landmark album by the singer of a group that just totally changed my life. When Greg’s first solo album came out, we had never heard anything like it. And of course, what is better is that one of my best friends, David Baughn, went on the road with him to run sound and basically live with him for the better part of a couple of years. Also, I knew the guitar player, Kirk Henderson, who is from Vicksburg and had a band that I had used a couple of times called Prevail. Still one of my favorite band names! I can still hear Baughn singing, “Gonna marry her!”

Today’s Quote: “The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.” Albert Einstein

Today’s Thanks:Tasting. The thought here is similar to the others – we could’ve had a normal life with no good food, and never knew the difference. So I am thankful to God that I can taste great stuff like banana pudding, veal parmegian, sweet tea, hot baked bread, hot chocolate chip cookies, strawberry cake, veal cutlets, steak with baked potatoes, anything on the grill, Majestic SourDough burgers, etc. Life is good!

Today’s Verse: “For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us. As a father has compassion on his children,
so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.” Psalm 103:11-13.