I woke up this morning, got breakfast with my friend Justin at the Biscuit Shoppe as we try to do on Wednesday mornings. Afterwords I would usually head to work, but since many of my co-workers travel for holidays to see family, the week of major holidays leaves the office population rather sparse. So I decided to work from home today doing some fundraising. Well, I tried to do some fundraising, but that didn’t work.
Sarah was sleeping because she works the night shift, and our little pup was not wanting to stay in the crate. He usually sleeps during the day in his crate, but today was a no go. I couldn’t work with the dude whining and barking non-stop.
I decided maybe a walk to the park where he can run in the baseball field would help get his energy out. Bummer, it was chained up. The city had just put some new seed down. I tried to run with him outside, but my back has been injured since I tried to squat too much weight a week ago, so that didn’t work.
After that, I had a chiropractor appointment for my back. I went to the chiropractor only to find out they had moved out of my insurance network a couple weeks ago. Unless I wanted to pay over $250 for the visit, I had to find another option. Yet again, that didn’t work.
During breakfast I noticed my iPhone was bent. So I decided to go to the Apple Store to have them try to replace it since it is still under warranty. From what I have read online, the decision to replace the phone for this specific issue is based off of the individual you talk to at the store. The dude didn’t even look at the phone, and told me they don’t replace phones that are bent, no if ands or buts about it. I walked out thinking, “well, that didn’t work.”
While I was out that way I needed to ship a box. I arrived at the UPS store at 4:10pm (they usually close at 6:30pm), but since today was the day before Thanksgiving, they closed early at 4pm. So that didn’t work.
I get home to Sarah making breakfast, and I tell her how it was just one of those days that didn’t work. She is sweet and tried to cheer me up by making fun of how small the potato was I was using to make dinner. I kinda worked, but I was still in a funk.
Now I am sitting down with our little pup sleeping on my lap (he finally decided to sleep), listening to a Smooth Jazz 90’s worship playlist off of Youtube happy as a clam. Do you know why?
Even though it was a day that just didn’t seem to work out how I had wanted it. Even though I tend to beat myself up when I can’t get done what I want to get done, I am okay now.
Lately I have been memorizing Psalm 103. Tonight I was reading about how our God does not deal with us according to our sins, and how He doesn’t repay us according to our iniquities. He is just good. Our God is our Father who is patient. He is kind. He is committed to us. He is a safe place, and He is always there for us.
Some times just knowing that He loves us just as we are. He will never leave, and He is just proud as can be that we are His. Just like a dad loves His son’s or daughter’s crappy drawings, so does our Dad love us because we are us. He is happy in just who we are. Yeah we mess up. Yeah we are unproductive some times, but He is still happy. I am so glad that I am the royal son of a King who doesn’t ask us to perform. He just asks for relationship, and our yes, even if our yes is a small one. Thank God!
