I went to the Portland Sportman’s Show today with two good friends. It was an incredibly fun day. The Show seemed bigger this year and all of the buildings at the Expo Center were filled with hunting and fishing guides with great videos of successful hunts and fishing trips. There were also booths selling fishing equipment of every sort, all of the latest and best in camping stuff along with camp trailers and campers, and lots of boats,quads, and trucks. I get a big plastic bag right off the bat and collect dozens of brochures on all of the various guided hunting trips promising Boone and Crocket record book deer and elk, along with the guided fishing trips. The one I got the most excited about was the trip out of Baha, California for yellow fin tuna that get as big as 400 lbs, now that would be fun. When I get home I read through each one the cool brochures once more, and then throw them away knowing that they all are out of our price range, but it was fun to dream and imagine a bit. I did buy a few things that I couldn’t resist, but just a few. The phrase I used at the start “incredibly fun day” is interesting. What does “fun” mean? What made it fun? Was it the all time funest day? If it wasn’t what was? I am always careful to acknowledge to the Lord that besides Him I need nothing in order to be full of joy. But it seems like when that is really true that the Lord is free then to bring days into our life where everything is perfect and good and is incredibly fun because He knows that we will not get addicted to that kind of day and worship it as it were because of the good time we had. God will have no other gods before Him and if we look to fun days with stuff and perfect circumstances to meet our joy need God will remove them out of our life. As I lay in bed tonight thinking about the day, I say “thank You Lord, for the gift you gave me today, it was awesome and you are wonderful, I love You”.