Tuesday was a good day. You know what, speaking truthfully, Tuesday was a really good day. We got our homeschooling done, attitudes were great, and life just felt calm and peaceful.
It would be easy to take that day for granted. To expect that days should be like that and will be like that. But, I’ve learned, you can’t. There are those hard days sprinkled around those good days sprinkled around the average days sprinkled around the just-get-through days.There’s a need to remember the good day for the hard days that will inevitably come. I’ve had them. And they’re challenging.
So I’ll write it down – in my planner or on the calendar. Good day.
Motherhood can be hard. Plain and simple. Sprinkled in the midst of those hard, pull-your-hair out moments there are moments of pure and utter goodness – joy moments. But, you must be aware. Awake. And sometimes that means simply writing down Good day.
Grab your pen. Grab your camera. Look for the Good day moments.
Be intentional. And remember.
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I have been taking note more of good days as well.
It’s so nice when you have one of those really good, easy days! I do always appreciate them. It’s not that most days are bad, but they usually have their challenges and a really good day is something to notice!
Great post. You must’ve been reading my blog from last friday. 🙂 This sounds just like what I was trying to say – only you said it better.
It’s great to have those good days – mixed in with all those ‘pull-your-hair-out’ moments.
I do need to remember! Thanks.
I love this idea of actually WRITING IT DOWN. I try to remember, but sometimes the days blur…
Thanks for an encouraging post. 🙂
I love it! “GOOD DAY” check.
Isn’t that like building alters? Piling up stones so that when we see the pile we remember the Lord’s mercies – even during seasons in which all is a blur of confusion and unknowns?
A good practice this, and I’m going to write it down that simply too.
Thanks friend 🙂
I absolutely love your statement “Be intentional”…I think I should make a print of that to hang on my wall.
Glad you had a “Good Day” and were able to recognize it. Have a good rest of the week Rachel!
I love the idea of recording “Good Days”.
i’m so happy you had a really good day!!!
i think i often think my life is really hard (and sometimes it is) but every time i think “argh! this stinks!” i go and read “the voice of the martyrs.” my hard day seems so easy then.
i guess everything is about perspective. thanks for reminding me.
xoxo!
ps. you know what sounds really good to me?! poogan’s porch! : )
Oh that makes me smile and laugh. It reminds me of how when my 15 yr old eats and eats and eats and then one day he’s not hungry we wrote it down on the calendar “boy not hungry!” so we could remember 🙂
love it~ Cinnamon
Today was a good day here, too…got to babysit Ben for a couple of hours! That made 12 hours with grands in the house…
In Chronological Bibles Job is the first book. The promise of the resurrection was given from the beginning! What comfort these words give! Praying!
Job 19:25-27 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
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Yes! I think I need to write down those “good days” more often. Rather than dwelling on the bad. Awesome!
Thanks, too, for linking up today with Koinonia Thursday’s!
I’m looking for the “good days” in the midst of some overwhelming days. I know there is beauty in each day!
Hi I found your blog through the koinonia link up. This is a wise post. We have often clung to the memories of God’s hand in our life to carry us through those tough patches. I spent a few minutes reading your blog, and feel like I have met a kindred spirit. We are a homeschool family with 6 children, 4 boys 2 girls, we have an Elijah, Samuel and Hannah too! We have battled the beast of cancer in our family our 4 1/2 year old at the time had a malignant brain tumor Joel is now 6 and finished treatment this past May. Our one son had wheat and gluten intolerance’s which he out grew. I could go on… so pleased to have found your blog and am following along. Hope you can pop by and follow along with us too. Blessings!