Ever have one of those days when you wake up and all seems to be great. The sun is out and the world around you is alive. Typically this is off an incredible day! One filled with many laughs and good times with friends. But Today is different.  The day that I am talking about is when you wake up rejuvenated from the previous craziness.  You walk outside and everything begins to change. People change, they don’t seem as alive as they were before you walked out your front door? The type of day that may start out sunny, but eventually turn dark. The dark will lead to rain clouds, and the rain clouds to thunder. Within a few hours, people have gone dark. The clouds have gone dark, and nothing seems to be going right.

Ever had one of these days?

Today I did.

In days like today you just want people to understand.... understand that you are human and cannot be perfect in everything you do. Mistakes will happen, and things will go wrong. This is one of those days that I just accept and sit listening to some depressed music.  These, quite frankly, are the days that we question where God is... or how all this could be used to his Glory?

These are the days that you just want to go back to sleep and never actually ruin your day by walking out the front door. If you could take it all back you would. wouldn’t you? The thing is that I am almost certain that everyone who reads this today will be able to say without a doubt that they have been there.

Unfortunately for those who follow this blog somewhat regularly... there is not going to be a typical ending to this entry.  The day is still dark. God is still a bit distant right now, and Life has really not changed any more in the last half an hour of typing this, than it has in the half of hour prior to this.

But, I type all this to just know that God calls us to sit in our crap for a while. Baby’s don’t have a system that the moment they mess up, we are alerted and they get a new diaper. No, they have to sit in their screw ups a bit. The reality is that God has to allow us to experience the crap of our lives in order for him to receive the full amount of glory!

If we discredit our feelings, or don’t allow ourselves to sit in it for a little while, we will not be able to fully glorify God in our moment of dark, wet despair. So maybe in these moments the best way to glorify our creator is to just sit in it for a little while. Bath in the mess of life. Soak in the disappointment. Let the rain pour and pour and pour. Let the clouds cover up the bright sunshine of the day. But maybe for once we need to just take a breath, and inhale all the hurt. All the pain. All the sorrow. All the guilt.

Better day’s are yet to come... But not on our time, On God’s.

“But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.”

- 2 Peter 3:8