the fundamental elements

Alright, I know it's a band name but this is the core of things that I am churning about in my head tonight. Nothing glamorous or heart stopping but the stark reality of how fragile things can be. It only takes a minute for life to unwind and become a storm.
I read today about a boy who got sick with the H1N1 virus, things were caught late ending up with double pneumonia. It was a heart breaking read about the week that changed the family from normal to life threatening, only to end 58 days later.
Tomorrow is unknown so how do I sleep at night? I can only hang my hat on Christ, on Jesus. I say that in all seriousness, hoping that the baggage of Christian Culture and human choices don't sour the understanding of who Jesus is. Jesus being God, in the flesh here on earth, to testify to truth that God loves us and we are special to him. A way out of the sin-filled worlds path to destruction.

In my hands life gets pretty muddy fast. Maybe some people can keep things clean or at least maintain a perception of good living but when the naked truth of who I am is out there I cannot claim to be able to accomplish anything on my own. Good choices need to be based on something, a moral compass, a guide, a light. When God says that he is good, that he is love, then it seems clear where I should set my relative compass. So far all other paths seem to stem from people and as far as I can tell people are flawed and self serving (myself included).
Bringing it all around, I find myself wanting to live, to have a great life with those I love, to not live in fear of the future, the unknown at the expense of just being alive today, making the best choices from the guide and light in life, the Liberating King - Jesus, in order to live! He can only be what he claimed to be or else a fool.
This is my hope on cold night.