A Both Kinda Day

Today was a day of really great things.

I had a cranky, crabby, tough day today.

Confused?

I would be too if I were you.

When I woke up this morning I was undecided on how my day would go.  Normally I can wake up and sense that right away it’s going to be a ‘I wish I could stay in bed all day’ kinda day, or a ‘this is going to be a rockin awesome’ day.

Today was neither of those.

Today was actually both of those, but I just didn’t know it yet.

Because I was undecided on how my day was about to go I decided that I needed to take some time to talk to God.  I found myself turning the radio off and actually talking out loud to God.  I’m sure I looked/sounded like a fool if anyone would have seen/heard me.  Oh well…not the first time… :)

It’s been a while since I talked to God.  I mean, I’ve prayed a lot lately and a lot about specific things, but all my prayers have been in passing or while I’m falling asleep.  So, this was different.  This was good.

After that, I thought that there might be some hope for the day to turn out pretty good, little did I know today was the day for every seventh grade Math student to ‘forget’ all the wonderful mathematical wisdom their loving teacher had bestowed upon them.  It was also the perfect day for all middle schoolers and their teachers to want more than anything for it to be summer….ugh!

So, as you can see, really good and really not so good.

But here is where me making sense of things really does get good.  After chatting with God this morning, God showed me that He is in control and He has a plan, He showed me that there is light to look forward to in something that before seemed so negative and dark.  It was something I needed.
I was also reminded today after school that the reason that I’m in teaching isn’t to be mad at kids all the time.  I’m there to build relationships and enjoy them.  I have to be a resilient teacher and have some fun sometimes.

God is so good to me.  The lessons I'm thrown into never cease to amaze me.  I’m blessed in the rockin awesome days and I’m blessed through the days where I wish I would have just stayed in bed.