Another One Bites the Dust

I was prepared to chalk today up to a failure. It was going to get crossed off of the week and taken off of the calendar. Not only did I toss and turn all last night, but I got declined for a car loan (again) and lost my phone. [Chad had an equally long day as well.] That may not seem like a lot to some but for me today, it was just the right amount of disappointment to make me feel sad, grumpy, and upset.

But then, something strange happened. After I moped about and abated my woes with bargains from Hobby Lobby and Target, and after I found my phone, and after I realized that the car I so desperately wanted just wasn't meant to be mine, and after Chad and I ordered pizza and played 9 rounds of Mexican Train Dominoes, and after we laughed over me shoving my face with CinnaStix, and after we snuggled while watching an episode of Angel...I realized that although I don't know God's plan in all of the failures that we experienced today, I do know that if I would have allowed my disappointment to dominate my day...I would have missed a lot of really amazing memories and fun times.

It's a FREAKING hard lesson to learn, but maybe HE does know what is best for me. After all,

"Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds! And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life's span? If then you cannot do even a very little thing, why do you worry about other matters? Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you? You men of little faith! And do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not keep worrying." -Luke 12:22-29

Now I will go rest, and dream, in peace...for I am free of worry and stress. Night all.