What is a Bad Day Worth?

It seems to happen on the days when I sleep in later than I should, the days when the world seems to be spinning a little faster than usual, those are the days when life gets the best of me.

We all have these days, the days in which our grandmas would have said that, "we got up on the wrong side of the bed". That seems so meaningless- and when you think of the situations which we tend to let overwhelm us, they are really just as trivial.

We have an extra bill to pay instead of spending that dough on shoes, I didn't get up in time to go running, Oliver gets the bigger ice cream cone, Brad doesn't call me when I was needing him to, it is raining, it is cloudy, it is cold, it is hot, the house is dirty, I have no clean clothes, I have so much to do....on and on and on. However, I am a wimp. Even one of these non-hypothetical problems can throw me off for the day. If it is 'the house is messy' one, awk-there goes my week! Yep, it happened just the other day, the boys were fighting from when the got up and I hadn't had my tea, my run, or most importantly any time with God and therefore allowing my circumstances control me and my mood.

Jackson screeched from the other room about how Oliver had hit him and not said sorry, and then Oliver started crying too. I stomped over to their room looking as grouchy as I could declaring, "You guys are acting horrible, and making me get into a bad mood"!! Did I say that!?! Yes, I did. The very thing that I have been working on my kids with- that others don't control how they feel, or what they do. It is true for me too- so true. It doesn't get any easier as we get older unless we work on it, does it?

Nothing has the power to rob me of my joy unless I allow it to, and I do let plenty things under my skin. Maybe not who gets the bigger piece of chocolate cake (don't think I am above that though) but close.  I want to be more and more filled with Christ and the joy He gives which is certainly not circumstance based, but a commitment of lifestyle. It is so much easier for me to be joyful when I spend time with God, each time I fall in love deeper and the things that used to bug me seem less and less important.

What dictates your day?

PS. That chocolate cake sounds really good right now.

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