Today's Devotion

Monday Monday.....




"Satisfy us each morning with your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives. Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good.~Psalm 90:14,15"



I'm not sure if I'm the only one who is slighly grumpy this Monday morning after such a long and wonderful weekend with family but in my daily Bible reading I found this verse and found encouragement in it so hopefully you will too:) My "misery" this morning was waking up to Aiden asking "why does daddy have to go to work?", it breaks my heart each monday morning when he has to leave and making it worse having our 3.5 year old express his sadness too; which I often don't respond in the most comforting way probably because I'm just as sad about it as he is. But after reading this verse I'm refocusing from the "misery" that Monday has presented to me to the wonderful love and blessings that God has granted me. Yea it really sucks to have Nathen gone through the week but we should be rejoicing, and praising God that he has a great job, and that he's such a wonderful husband and daddy that we WANT him home and enjoy our weekends together. I can imagine that there are families that experience more conflict and disappointment than us and that is probably because we really try to focus on the postives and maximize our family time. Of course we arn't perfect and conflicts arise as Nathen found a expired debit card still intact in my car...same account name and number so anyone could access our money. He was angered and I was embarrased that I hadn't cut it up to ensure our financial safety. This conflict could have ruined our weekend, but instead we each defended ourselves, agreed it wasn't worth ruining our weekend and continued on with our joyful weekend, and I learned a valuable lesson...cut up expired card immediately! In a way we did replace "evil" with good. We could have both caved into our humaness and argued over who was right but I'm so thankful that we decided to focus on the goodness that we had in our weekend instead.

So on this Monday morning whatever your "misery" is please remember the unfailing love God has for you, and try to find the blessings throughout the day, because I think when we refocus on this we can only feel good and loved by our Heavenly Father. Happy Monday!



In God's love,

Sarah:)