Is It?

Alright, short and sweet today because there’s home reading and spelling to be done! Ahh, homework!  I dislike it as much now as I did when I was in school.

Is it ok to have a “bad day” once in a while?  (I just realized that one of Ben’s home reading books for today is titled Bird’s Bad Day.)  How fitting.  Things have been going so well in life these past few months, it’s rare when I feel really down.  However, when I do have one of those off days now, I feel REALLY off.  Before, if I had a bad day, I never noticed because they were ALL bad days.  Now, there are so many good days, the bad ones really stick out.

My coach, Dani Johnson (www.danijohnson.com) reminds me over and over that life and death is in the power of the tongue – does this mean I shouldn’t even mention that I’m feeling a little sad?  Does the mentioning of it make it so?

I’m thinking as I type, here, so please forgive me if I seem a little scattered.  I guess what I think is that if my Creator made me with all these emotions, and even Jesus wept (John 11:35) then maybe it’s ok for me to feel a little melancholy sometimes.  I think the danger for me is to get comfortable in the melancholy, to get used to it.  To let it wrap itself around me and start to define me like it used to.

I think it’s ok to have a bad day, but I think it’s important to realize that tomorrow does not have to be like today.  No matter how bad this morning was, or how much I messed up this afternoon, I can do my best tomorrow.  I CAN choose to smile.  I can encourage someone else, brighten someone else’s day – I don’t know about you but I always feel better when I’ve done something that I know will bless someone else.  That’s what this is all about, right?  Loving God and loving others.

I feel better already, thanks for reading, now go smile at someone, or give someone a hug, or tell a girl she’s pretty!