It's been one of THOSE days

It all started in the wee hours of the morning, (you know that moment when you're finally really sleeping good? Yeah--then) when 2/3 of my children decided they needed to see me in the middle of the night. 😏
After everyone's toes were covered and warm (yes that was one of the complaints), I literally jumped back into bed while mentally calculating the precious minutes of sleep I could get before my husband had to get up for work. Now, granted, I'm not always bright-eyed and bushy tailed (ahem conscious) when my husband leaves but today, he was headed to the airport. That is not my idea of a great day. 😏 (again)
Then, after the mad dash of morning routine, we pull up to the school and my reluctant kindergartener cries because not only does she have to go to school today, she also has to go to the restroom RIGHT NOW! 😏 My ever helpful second grader promises to bring her to the restroom and my kindergartener (you guessed it) reluctantly gets out of the car.

And you know what? I could go on about the messes that were made today, the behavior challenges that arose, and the crushing exhaustion that comes from being the only adult while my husband is away, but as I think back on this morning, I see something at that moment that makes me too thankful to whine anymore. Big sister puts her arm around little sister and helps her into the school to start her day. That's a good...no, a great thing! 😄
I later found out that my oldest risked being tardy (something she hates) in order to take care of her sister. And it made me feel like maybe just maybe it wasn't such a bad day after all.

Maybe if we look closely we'll see that in THOSE days God is still showering us with blessings that we overlook because we're too focused on all the things that didn't go like we wanted them to. It made me think of the verse in Zechariah 13:9
I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
When we are going through a "fiery" day, maybe God is trying to skim out the impurities to show us the treasure that is really there. At any rate, if THOSE days make us call out to HIM, isn't comforting to know that he'll put his arm around us and help us through it?

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God Bless!