Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

As a kid, I read this book by Judith Viorst entitled Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Many of you may have read it or even read it to your kids.  Most of us can relate to having one of these kinds of days every now and then too!  For me, that day was yesterday. Basically, my car broke down in the grocery store parking lot, I hit my head very hard on our refrigerator door (still feeling the headache from that), my sweet puppy pottied all over my foot in his excitement to see me and we received some sad medical news about Mike's grandma (pray for her as she has a broken hip and pneumonia).  Needless to say, it was a day where one thing just happened after another.  And like poor Alexander in the book, I got very mopey and whiney and just wanted to move to Australia (or least go to sleep and forget the day happened). Let's just say my attitude wasn't the greatest.  My poor hubby can attest to that, God love him!

But as I reflect on the day, I realize, unlike Alexander, there are many things to be thankful for even amidst the times of trouble.  See, Alexander's story ended by his mom telling him that sometimes we just have terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days and we just have to deal with them. While this is true statement, we as Christians have so much to be thankful for in spite of the difficult times in life.  God even blesses us during the middle of our crisis. So, instead of being mopey and whiney, I should have rejoiced in the fact that my sweet friends Amy and Cameron came and gave me a ride home from the grocery store (Mike was at church teaching Sunday school meeting for the first time...I wasn't about to bug him in the middle of that!) I should have been thankful when 2 people in the grocery store parking lot came over to help me and Mike try to figure out what was wrong with my car. I should have been thankful that even though my Lincoln went potty all over my foot at least he has unconditional love for me and is always happy to see me. As for my poor injured head, not quite sure how to be thankful for that except to say at least I have a refrigerator =) All that to say, God takes care of us even when we have tough days, we just have to be willing to look a little more closely and get passed our own bad attitudes.  I didn't pass that test very well yesterday, but thankfully my turn around is getting a little faster =)

I leave you with these verses from Matthew 6:25-27, 32-34, "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?.... For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."  These verses remind me that God has it all taken care of!  I definitely don't need to worry and I can definitely have a better attitude through the trials of life!  So, there is my little heart to heart lesson for the week. Please do keep Mike's grandmother in your prayers as they get her pass this pneumonia so that she can have surgery on her hip. And pray for my in-laws as they care for her during this time. Thanks for reading! I find blogging strangely refreshing. Helps me get all my crazy thoughts out.  I at least know my mom, my sister and my grandmother get some enjoyment out of it...shout out to them! Hopefully some of the rest of you do too!  Much love...until next time...