I just escaped the blizzard moving into Dayton, OH and landed in Georgia to pick up a dear personal friend.

You see, a terrible thing happened last week and my friend and I were separate for seven long and painful days..

On Tuesday night, I flew the red-eye back from my dinner and panel with Rick Warren, Eric Bryant, and several other California pastors. You will notice that while I am bringing a clear and compelling answer to an important question, Rick Warren is doodling his plan for world domination. Sigh.

Anyway, I flew back on the red-eye overnight flight to present some Cooperative Program research to the SBC Executive Committee. It is not particularly exciting and won't make CNN, but it is very important research for the future of cooperation in my own denomination. I flew all night to present about 10a.m. in the morning.

Needless to say, I slept on the plane. But, I had to do some work before I went to bed so I took our my laptop. When it was time to sleep, I folded up the laptop and stuck it in the seat pocket in front of me. Three hours of airline quality sleep later, I was up and leaving the plane to catch a connecting flight in Atlanta... forgetting the laptop behind. Sigh.

Now, I must confess that I love my laptop... not just like, I LOVE it. When I came to LifeWay, they actually let me choose what laptop I had. (NAMB, like many organizations had a standard laptop with two options, take it or leave it, so picking my own laptop was quite an exciting moment for me...) It is a constant companion and help!

So, as I boarded the next flight and noticed that "my precious" was missing, panic set in. But, due to the crack service of the Delta pilot, they called over to the other plane, found the laptop, and put it in lost and found.

I actually thought about getting off the plane and going back for it, but this was important research for the Executive Committee that's been scheduled for a while.

So, today, just moments ago in the Atlanta airport, we were "re-united and it feels sooo good." One week apart... with my laptop all alone in the Delta lost and found... is just not good.

Blogging will be more consistent, email more rapid, sermons more Biblical, and the sky filled with more sunshine for the rest of this week.

Off to the Georgia Evangelism Conference