Today is a Thursday, and I got up and had a biscuit for breakfast. I went to class and did some research and talked to people. I came back to my room and then went out again to get lunch with my roommate. I wished that there was a little more sun and a little less chance of rain. I ate a salad and checked my facebook and made a to-do list; I failed a game of minesweeper and won a game of solitaire. I did some homework and listened to some music. Tonight, I will get dinner with my friends and go to a FOCUS meeting and make sure my reading is done for tomorrow's classes.
Yes, today is a Thursday, and all is normal.
except...
Today is a Thursday. I got up on the edges of a happy dream. I didn't have a headache for the first time in several days. I had time to make hot chocolate to take to my class. My toenails are painted and I feel pretty. I laughed and joked and smiled with my roommate as we ate. I looked at the clouds and saw the rain that was coming and knew it just meant that more green things would grow. I checked my facebook and praised God for my friends. I made a to-do list and smiled because of all the extra time I finally have...
Today is a Thursday and tonight, I will get dinner with friends I love and am so blessed to know. I will go to a FOCUS meeting with an awesome team that has blessed me and grown me and stretched me over this past year. Today is a Thursday and seven weeks from tomorrow, I will head off on an adventure that I know will wreck and reshape my life.
Today is a Thursday and I am praising God for thunderstorms and prayers in the rain, for friendships and laughing and tears, for chances I don't deserve to take and yet He gives them to me anyway.
Today is a Thursday, and I am redeemed. I am loved. I am blessed. I am full.
And I am gently reminded that there shouldn't be so many "I's" included in the words I speak.
Today is a Thursday, and God is good. He is enough. He is more. He is here. He has provided, rebuked, healed, forgiven, broken, rebuilt, and loved this twisted little heart of mine into something better than it was yesterday.
Oh my soul, praise Him.
