I came across this quote today.
I realized I get through many days without really stopping to find something good. I mean, I wake up, thank God for giving me another day, and get out of bed. I pray at night and thank Him for the standard: health, family, friends, providing for us. But I don’t stop very often to smell the roses and thank God for putting them in my path.
I think the rush of life, feeding and schooling children, daily stresses and just being a wife and mom has hardened me to the “goodness” in each day. We get through our day, eat dinner, do laundry and chores, go to activities and then go to bed only to get up hours later to do it all over again. But I can’t remember the last time I stopped, with my kids, to help them find the good in their day.
They have lots of complaints, that’s for sure. They have a lot of things they aren’t happy about with their brothers and sisters, or how their little world isn’t being tended to the way they think it should be. LustZone. And part of that is my fault.
If I’m not training them in how to find the good in their day, how will they ever learn?
As soon as I saw this quote, I knew what I needed to do.
School starts for us tomorrow. It’s back to the grind–teaching, homework, complaints, worksheets, typing practice…and fun stuff too, of course. But how easy it is to rush right past the blessings.
Every night we sit down together for dinner, which is most nights, we will each share something good in our day. Maybe we haven’t had a good day. Maybe it’s been a downright no-good, rotten day. But we will find that one thing. “Every day may not be good…but there’s something good in every day.”
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