Good day?

Good Day?

I find myself wondering if today is a good day. People pulling and prodding me in every different direction. Cars getting stuck in snow drifts, little ones making messes in bathrooms with soap and lotion and A&D ointment..... Dinner dishes still in the sink from yesterday. An angry teenager who can't find her phone charger and who is afraid she might miss something important. A hurried husband who is late to get to town with roads drifted high. Laundry piled up and a puppy who doesn't know how to go potty outside. Af frustrated son, who point out my impatient attitude and told me I was too prideful to admit it. Children who will not settle down and do school. Phone calls to repair people and missing socks. A missed appointment with my exercise tape....spilled messes....I start to grumble. I didn't want to start my day like this.... Especially not after going to a wonderful concert of praise last night. It seems that this Monday is more chaotic than usual. I was being transformed into an Israelite as I wandered in the desert areas of my home grumbling to myself and to others......And then it came....a thought.....a word I saw.....It was a divine interruption. "If I can't gratefully work with what HE has given me today, how can HE entrust me with much tomorrow? And so now, as I bow my head once again in humility before Father, and ask Him to give me a right heart. A heart that honors and glorifies Him through it all.....to forgive me again for being a flickering light....and a tail that will go between my legs as I go once again to apologize for my sharp tongue. And once again, I know that in my weakness, He is strong....If only I would stop in a moment and remember: And He said to me: "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." 2 Cor. 12:9 He works out my kinks, smoothes over the edges, applies pressure in just the right places in the ordinaries of my days. Will I resist? OR Surrender and wave the white flag? I think for a brief moment......I wonder to myself where I last left the white flag.....I am sure it is around here somewhere....it has been used many times......

Written 1-25-10