"Leap Day Today"

Today is LEAP DAY, a day which only occurs every four years during Leap YEAR.  This is my first Leap Year since I started this blog two years ago, so I've given extra thought regarding what to SAY on this first-for-me Leap Day. (Here goes.)

Leap Day will be different things for different people. For example, for those who love winter, Leap Day is great because it delays the official start of spring by a full 24 hours. For those who love SPRING, it's a 24 hour "setback." Fans of "Black History Month" (February) get an extra day for it this year because of Leap Year, but isn't March "WOMEN'S History Month"?? (I believe so.) Consequently, for WOMEN, Leap Day makes them have to wait an additional day to get "THEIR" month (although BLACK women wind up as TOTAL winners with Leap Day, because they may celebrate BOTH February and March, and thus they get this extra day in between to connect the two.)

Personally, I was kind of bummed because one of my devotional books that I read each morning does NOT accommodate Leap Day...there is no February 29th reading. (Thankfully, the other one DOES...and God's Word the Bible is ALWAYS available!!)

My point is that some GAIN from Leap Day every four years and some feel like they LOSE something because of Leap Day.  Paul Simon's song "One Man's Ceiling is Another Man's Floor" seems relevant right now, regarding this once-every-four year event.

The ODDEST thing about Leap Day and Leap Year, though, is that, here in the U.S., Leap Year coincides with our Presidential Election Cycle. This means that every four years, as we have our Presidential elections, we get a whole extra DAY to weight the candidates before we VOTE in November.  Sadly, Leap Day THIS year will be the first time the Democrats have an extra day to slander, persecute, hinder and try to DESTROY Donald Trump before the election (in 2016, he wasn't the CANDIDATE yet, on Feb. 29th, so relatively speaking, they left him alone.) So Leap Day is a day that can either be used to gather facts to vote more intelligently this fall, or, for the NOT-so-intelligent, it can be another day MISused to just rail on a candidate you don't like.  The choice IS yours as to what you do with this Leap Day and, this Leap Year.

For me, as a Christian, Leap Day is an extra opportunity to try to serve the Lord God with all of my heart.  This is something I should be doing ANYway, 24 / 7/ 365.....or, on every Leap Year, 24 / 7/ 366.

What will YOU do with this extra day this year?