Bad Day/Good Day

Yesterday was not a very good day. It started at 2:30 in the morning when my daughter decided to wake up and throw a fit on and off for about two hours before finally going back to sleep. Then at work I had a mishap while restringing my acoustic guitar and the tuning peg broke. So that meant that the guitar I needed for worship last night was broken by 10 am. Then I had to call a friend and apologize for a bonehead move I had made earlier in the week. He forgave me, which was good, but it still kinda ruined my morning knowing I had hurt his feelings. Then I missed a signing ceremony for one of my students who is going to play college football because I had to get everything set up for Wednesday night. Then, the video that I had spent all day Tuesday working on, didn’t work right. It took me three tries, and finally we got something on the screen, even though it wasn’t quite what I had originally wanted. And to top it all off, during our OASIS service we lost one of our speakers.

It seemed like everything I touched got ruined yesterday. I have days like this from time to time, and it seems like more often than not they happen on Wednesdays, the day of our biggest youth event of the week. Sometimes I feel like Satan is trying to rob my excitement and joy about what I get to do each week, and more often than not, when I have one of these terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days, I let him.

What God has been teaching me in recent months is to not let the things that happen to me change my attitude, but to choose my attitude based on His love for me. It is God’s grace that has set me free, and my attitude should reflect that no matter my circumstances. Last night we had a great worship service, despite all the issues, and I got to talk to some students afterward who told me how much what I had said meant to them.

So sure, everything went wrong, but students grew in their faith. Sounds like a great day to me!