What Would You Do With An Extra Day?
What Would You Do With An Extra Day?
My second-graders were writing a paper on what they would do with an extra day. One said she would go ice-skating. One would sleep all day. Another one said she would "read and write" (a child after my own heart). Another would play games, and you get the idea. One of them said he would go to school, which, of course, is the reality.
I hadn't really thought of it that way, but it made me say out loud, "This is that day!" So, I got to thinking what would I do with an extra day? And it is kind of exciting to think of today as being an "extra day." Of course, in a way, it's meaningless because it fell on a Monday...which means, no more days off for awhile.
However, I suppose that would be the "glass half-empty" version. I love my job. I love that I got my taxes done on a day off. I love that I'm just a tutor so I don't have to go to parent-teacher conferences but instead got two days off. So I sort of actually got TWO extra days last week.
Did I get anything done that I felt great about? Or get any significant rest and recuperation? Did I celebrate life? Did I write a song? Yes, all of the above and saw a great movie and cooked fried chicken and baked an apple pie and got my taxes done. So I'm good with all that. So I thank God for extra days. Actually, they're all kind of extra when you think about it. Who goes to bed at night knowing for certain they're going to wake up the next day?
So I'm happy. This life is great but it's only the beginning. I'm not looking at this life as if it were the whole thing and then just nothing. I'm born again, I am forgiven,I have eternal life, I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I have peace that passes understanding.
I experience the tangible love of Jesus Christ (who died for my sins, rose again and lives through me) every day. I mean I feel it. It's real. All the time. I love God and I love my fellow creatures. It just keeps getting better. Of course, there are trials and tribulations, even shattered dreams and disappointments. Because there are two teams on the field, one of them trying to get you to God and the other one trying to get you away from God.
So I just want to say, whether this is an "extra" day or not, "This is the day that the Lord has made; I will rejoice and be glad in it."
I hadn't really thought of it that way, but it made me say out loud, "This is that day!" So, I got to thinking what would I do with an extra day? And it is kind of exciting to think of today as being an "extra day." Of course, in a way, it's meaningless because it fell on a Monday...which means, no more days off for awhile.
However, I suppose that would be the "glass half-empty" version. I love my job. I love that I got my taxes done on a day off. I love that I'm just a tutor so I don't have to go to parent-teacher conferences but instead got two days off. So I sort of actually got TWO extra days last week.
Did I get anything done that I felt great about? Or get any significant rest and recuperation? Did I celebrate life? Did I write a song? Yes, all of the above and saw a great movie and cooked fried chicken and baked an apple pie and got my taxes done. So I'm good with all that. So I thank God for extra days. Actually, they're all kind of extra when you think about it. Who goes to bed at night knowing for certain they're going to wake up the next day?
So I'm happy. This life is great but it's only the beginning. I'm not looking at this life as if it were the whole thing and then just nothing. I'm born again, I am forgiven,I have eternal life, I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I have peace that passes understanding.
I experience the tangible love of Jesus Christ (who died for my sins, rose again and lives through me) every day. I mean I feel it. It's real. All the time. I love God and I love my fellow creatures. It just keeps getting better. Of course, there are trials and tribulations, even shattered dreams and disappointments. Because there are two teams on the field, one of them trying to get you to God and the other one trying to get you away from God.
So I just want to say, whether this is an "extra" day or not, "This is the day that the Lord has made; I will rejoice and be glad in it."
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