GladiTuesday

You might need gladness in your day if:

• You spend part of a Monday vacuuming/grinding unseen dog excrement into your carpeting. You might've responded by uttering under-the-breath-expletives, and completing behemoth/painful task of disassembling the Dyson Animal (how appropriate), and running all the plastic-non-electrocutionary parts under the sink, whilst gagging cleaning the rest with paper towels and squirt bottle. Oh, your son might be saying something like, "Did you get the poo cleaned up, yet???" You probably had nary a thought of rubbing his nose in...anyhoo. This adventure might end in completing the vacuuming process--after you wrestled the beater bar into place, belt in ouch position.


• You buy groceries each week, with glorious plans of menu greatness, only to be thwarted by teenage boys who steal cherry pick find and consume delicious edibles meant for such planned meal masterpieces. These boys may also eat items earmarked for their sister's lunches. This might make you frustrated. You may begin not to care that "But Mom, I was HUNGRY!".


• You nurse your whiplash from your precious daughter's mood swings. You might have a few of your own to throw in for balance.


• Your husband is far away when things like computers act up and vacuums inhale poop.

So here are some glads:

• For the next few days, our weather is decidedly summery. Mid eighties. Around here, we call that "hot." Praise God.


• My husband has escaped (so far) the call to a quarantine despite sitting near a person who...well...vomited on himself on the plane from Seoul to China. Thank you, God, that so far, he won't be any longer away than normal.


• Our choir starts up Tue-Night. :) It will be nice to reconnect with our "oldies" and hopefully, we'll meet some newbies.


• Glad for hazelnut 1/2 and 1/2. At least I think I am. I bought a quart of it, so I must like gambling.


• Glad for these humbling, amazing, tender, strong, true, and incredible verses for when life becomes very daily:
  
  "12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. " Philippians 3:12-14
  
  "5 But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.
  6 I will sing to the LORD, for he has been good to me." Psalm 13:5-6
  
  "All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!" Psalm 139:16-17
  
  "7But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body." 2Corinthians 4:7-10

• So...as daily as life can be, He is with me. Praying He is carrying you, too. SDG, indeed!