How you doin?

This is a phrase that Irene and I found very comical when we first moved to DE. It's just so stereotypical. It brings thoughts of Joey from "Friends" with his smooth smile and even smoother pick-up line, "How you doin?" Anyway, in poking fun of it, it has now become a regular part of my vocabulary but lately I really have to think about it when someone asks. Things haven't been great here and when someone asks me how I'm doing I really think to myself, "How am I doing?" My most common response right now has become, "I'm surving another day." And if further inquiry ensues I simply say, "I'm taking one breath at a time." More and more I'm concentrating on today because it's the only thing I can control. Maybe that's the lesson God's trying to teach me right now. Maybe I've been looking so far down the road that I haven't been concentrating enough on today. Well, I don't even want to think about tomorrow because the possibilities of what could happen tomorrow are too overwhelming. I'm just surviving today. At times, I'm even stopping to make sure I'm actually breathing and take a second to intentionally breathe. So far, today is fine and tomorrow is an eternity away!