01.22.08
It’s Been A Good Day
It’s been a good day, Lord. Yes, a very good day. I didn’t realize it while it was happening. There were many frustrations. I was very discouraged when the letter I was praying for didn’t come. Then the telephone rang, bringing good news.
When a child was carried home from the playground hurt and we rushed him to the hospital, you knew my awful fears. But to learn that it wasn’t really serious brought a sense of heightened joy. (Sheer releif can generate sheer bliss.)
So now the child is asleep, with the bandage slipped rather comically from his head. My husband stands in the yard, leaning on his rake as he visits with a neighbor.
Other children come spilling across the yard. The sun is a golden glory behind the trees. I can smell the pot roast mingling with the tangy fragrance of burning leaves.
I look back on this day with its usual ups and downs. Its moments of anguish, and its moments of gratefulness and joy. And now that it’s ending, an aching awareness fills me. I realize that it’s been a good day, Lord. A very good day.
For it’s been filled with life. The life you have given me to cope with, and to contribute to. And I wouldn’t want to have missed it, not a single moment of it. Thank you, God for this good day. ~Marjorie Holmes
Administrator said,
June 22, 2008 at 7:15 pm
yes today has been a good day. both the boys were home sick with pink eye in both eyes, strep, asthma, and feverish but still……sad as it is for me…they were with me and even though they are both sick, through that i have to be thankful that at least they are both very healthy. now that it is evening…they seem to be feeling better. ~Nicole