It's Been a Good Day

Yesterday, as the kids were playing in the pool and I was holding Dani, I thought, man, life is awesome, it just can't get better!!! The kids are having fun, I love having a another little one, it was so peaceful....now, I will be honest, I don't always feel that way. Sadly, I'm probably more negative about life than I am positive. There are times I feel like giving myself a time out...you know, not "go to your room!!", it's a "I'm going to MY ROOM!!" Good thing God's not done with me yet.
Well, coincidentally, haha, as I was going to read my bible last night, this devotional caught my eye.


It's Been a Good Day

It's been a good day, Lord. Yes, a very good day.
I didn't realize it while it was happening. There were many frustrations. I was very discouraged when the letter I was praying for didn't come. Then the telephone rang, bringing good news.
When a child was carried home from the playground hurt and we rushed him to the hospital, you knew my awful fears. But to learn that is wasn't really serious brought a sense of heightened joy. (Sheer relief can generate sheer bliss)
So now the child is asleep, with bandage slipped rather comically from his head. My husband stands in the yard, leaning on his rake as he visits wit a neighbor.
Other children come spilling across the yard. The sun is a golden glory behind the trees. I can smell the pot roast mingling with the tangy fragrance of burning leaves.
I look back on this day with its usual ups and downs. Its moments of anguish, its moments of gratefulness and joy. And now that it's ending, and aching awareness fills me. I realize that it's been a good day, Lord. A very good day.
For it's been filled with life. The life you have given me to cope with, and to contribute to. And it wouldn't want to have missed it, not a single moment of it.
Than you, God, for this good day.

Proverbs 15: 13 and 15
13-A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.

15-All the days of the oppressed are wretched, but the cheerful heart has a continual feast.