Michelle and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day!

This is a rhetorical question because I really already know the answer to it.  Have you ever had a time in your life where if it can go wrong it does?  There never seems to be a break from the constant hammering that is happening on top of your head.  You just start to figure out one thing that went wrong and before you can even finish, another thing pops up and shows you its ugly face.  Come on I know you have had those times.  I know you, as the reader, are nodding your head as you are read.  The fact of the matter is we have pretty rotten days sometimes.  Sometimes those days turn into weeks, months, or even years.  We get to a point where we scream and say “I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!  I CAN’T DO THIS ANYMORE!”  Maybe a tear or two falls and maybe a few objects get tossed lightly, *cough*, across the room.  Oh wait; you would NEVER do such a thing!  ;)    It has taken me a pretty long time to figure out that none of that stuff really makes the situation better.  It just adds to my frustration and unhappiness. 

Bad days happen.  We ALL have them.  It seems like I have had a perpetual bad day for quite some time now.  My bad days spill into bad sleepless nights.  It seems as soon as I turn another corner I’m smacked in the middle of the face with yet another bad thing.  What am I supposed to do with all this?  Why is this still happening?  What did I do wrong to have these things happen?  My mind begins to fill with questions with no answers.  I cry out to God and yet I feel I hear no answer.  However today I got an answer from God.  “I create the light and make the darkness.  I send good times and bad times.  I, the Lord, am the one who does these things.” ~ Isaiah 45:7 (NLT)  At first I was reading it and was thinking, “Why in the world?  That just doesn't make sense at all.”   I actually started to wonder why God would send the bad times.  We as Christians tend to think that God only makes the good things happen.  I then had another scripture brought to mind, “Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have.   I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little.  For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.” ~ Philippians 4:11-13 (NLT) So I had to stop and pray and truly hear what God was trying to say to me.  He knows what is going on because He SENT the bad days.  Maybe He sends the bad days so that I might remember that He is there, that He cares.  I then decided I needed to remember the scripture about being content and remembering that nothing I do on my own is going to make my bad days go away any faster.  I now take solace and rest in knowing that GOD is in control.  I may not like the bad days but I do have to remember that NO MATTER what kind of day it is, be it good or bad, I MUST be content.  God will give me the strength to make it through another “bad” day in order for me to grow and learn more about His abundant love for me.  Maybe, just maybe, my “Alexander” day might turn out to be a good day after all!  As Alexander learned, some days are just like that.  Even in Australia!