Just a Bad Day.

Someone once asked me if I ever have a bad day.

Um, well, the answer is a big fat YES. I mean, who DOESN’T have bad days sprinkled in the mix of all the joys of life? Toss in five children 8 and under, homeschooling and the regular day to day activities … and hmm, that can be an interesting ride.

But isn’t it all about perspective?

For instance, Lovelyn, who is now 21 months old, is battling something. Not sure what. She has a fever that comes and goes. I think it’s her teeth – not sure though. She is just plain old miserable. She won’t nap properly. She won’t play. She is not eating as much as normal. She is one unhappy baby right now. It has been three full days of complete crying and major meltdowns. Several times a day I have found myself praying for her pain to go away and praying for patience as I sit and rock her on the front porch swing, Lovelyn in one arm and Leia in the other, singing her songs of Jesus’ love, rocking, rubbing her back, realizing dinner would not get made today, knowing the three loads of laundry sitting upstairs on the hallway floor wasn’t going to be tucked away anytime soon, knowing if I moved she would probably burst into another stream of tears and tantrums.
It would be easy to complain and whine right now.

{I’m exhausted.

Lovelyn is exhausted.

Daddy worked 18+ hours yesterday so there was no extra helping hand in the evenings.}

But I can breathe and know this too shall pass.  It’s just a few pages in a short chapter of my life. It’s nothing compared to what mothers around the world face with their own little ones –  mothers who wish they were still cradling their babies in their arms where they are safe from harm. I am praying tomorrow is better for Lovie’s sake. It’s just a bad day. Nothing more.

 

So yes, I do have bad days. I’m not writing this for a pat on the back or for sympathy but for a reality check. Life – good and bad – happens and we can choose how we deal with it when it faces us dead on – whether it’s a high fever,  a broken friendship, an argument between mother and child or a financial strain in your life. How are you dealing with it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace.
And your best days are never so good that you’re beyond the need of God’s grace.”