Ever have one of those days?

I’ve been battling the stomach flu for three days now…it’s that low lying, deep in the gut, run to the bathroom type flu that you can’t justify lying in bed for any length of time (because it really isn’t that bad…just enough to bring misery at every turn). I’ve been to the dentist 7 times in the past 6 weeks and have my 8th!!! visit today. There have been multiple days off of school (well, okay just two but it feels like a million) and my children haven’t earned the “playing well together” badge for any of them. We are still on hold waiting for our home study (and while I’d like to vent, I will have to do so internally on this particular issue). The weather stinks outside (cold and wet–will it ever be spring?)

Yeah, my life is seeming to be pretty miserable right now. It’s amazing to me how all the Scriptures I learned as a child rear their ugly head right when I DON’T want to hear them. All morning my mind wanders to “This is the day the Lord has made, let’s rejoice and be glad in it.”

So, I’m having to put aside my miseries and think about how this is the day the Lord has made. Once I actually reflect on that verse, my mind wanders to our daughter in Ethiopia and her family.

While I think of our daughter, my mind has been continually on her mother. What is she doing today? Does she have the flu like me (or morning sickness if she is still carrying our daughter?) My home is filled with heat, comfort and medicine to calm my churning stomach. How about her? Where does she live? Is she thinking about what she is going to do with this baby she is carrying? Does she have a husband who loves and adores her? Are her other children, if she has any, fighting and bickering?

See, if you are like me, once I get out of my little bubble of misery, I start to really appreciate all the blessings I’ve been given. So bring on the flu, the rain and fighting children, this is the day the Lord has made and darn it! I will rejoice and be glad in it!