Oh, today was a good day! To you who have been reading, it has been awhile since I had one of these days. And what an encouragement, that this good day happened to be on our first day of school! It went much better then I had even hoped for. I was calm, patient (for the most part), stayed with the schedule (mostly), and accomplished all that I had set out to do. Yay! If I wasn’t 6 months pregnant, I think I’d do a cartwheel (at least when no one was looking. I’m not that foolish!).
But you know what caused me to have such a good day? It was started out right: with God. And I guarded that time jealously. No, it wasn’t the first thing I did this morning. It wasn’t even the 10th thing. But it was done before breakfast ~ with 4 little ones, there a lot that needs to be done even before breakfast. I shooed all the children out of the room, gave Maacah care over Malachi and had my time with Him. It’s now 11:11pm and I’m finally having my time (when I should be sleeping). But that’s okay. H(e) comes before I, you know.
It’s kind~of like beating your head against a wall, isn’t it? You know that starting your day with Him will bring a calm, patient and more productive you. Even if things “happen” (or don’t happen, as the case may be), you handle it with grace and serenity. And you go to bed without the knot in your stomach because of how you handled the days’ doings (no pun intended). Yet, with all this knowledge, it doesn’t always happen and you sit there wondering “what is going on?!” You are taking your focus off of where is should be, that is what’s happening.
Step away from the wall and do what you should be doing. And today will be another “good day” no matter what happens.
Editors note* I have the sad habit of reading my old posts. So this post was written not only to the reader, but to the writer as well. I am fairly certain that I will read this post sometime in the future and I will be reminded of what I “forgot”. *