Thank You For the Rough Days

Last night I decided to participate in Thankful Thursday. It is quite interesting, and no coincidence, I am sure, that I am starting on a really “bad” day.

I am not really sure what happened, but the moment my feet touched the floor, things were falling apart all around me. My children were at each other, the phone was ringing off the hook, my toddlers were grouchy and into everything....I was grouchy too! So, with that being said, I could find no better day to speak out in thankfulness to my Heavenly Father.

Lord, thank you for these days when everything seems to go wrong. Thank you for your reminder that I am nothing without you, yet with you I can do all things! Thank you for humbling me, showing me when I am trying to rely on my own strength and understanding.

Thank you for a little teething baby needing my arms around him. Thank you for healthy, active, sometimes “into everything” 2 and 3 year olds.

Thank you for dear friends, whom I may not have much time to call, yet I know they are out there living the same (wonderful) life that I am.

Thank you for kitchen gadgets that make life a bit easier. I certainly wasn’t feeling thankful in the moment that I had hot bean juice shooting out of my bosch, all over my kitchen this morning....but I truly am thankful for such a delightful tool, given to me by my dear husband as a gift, to bring more ease into my kitchen work.

Thank you for the sweet hearts of my older children, who rush in to help clean up such a terrible mess!

Thank you for a husband, who can come in at noon for a meal, and see past my smile and know I need a hug.

Thank you for water, it is nourishment to our bodies, and readily available for a new cup of coffee when I have spilled the fresh one I just made all over the nice wood floor!

Thank you for my bed, for on days like today it beckons me to come back to it and try again tomorrow. Though I cannot succumb to it’s calling at this moment, I surely know it will feel so comforting at day’s end! Even more comforting knowing there is a warm body next to me, who loves me endlessly and sees past all my faults...who shows me Christ like love.

Thank you for a mother who I can call on or write whenever I need her....and thank you for being the Daddy I never had.

Thank you for taking my frustrations, my imperfections, my mess ups into your hands and using them to mold me into something you will be faithful to complete it in me.

Thank you....just....thank you. I would never want to walk this road without you!

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