Can You Celebrate Your Hardest Day and Call It Good?
The hardest day of your life.
Can you actually learn to celebrate it,
and then, with Godly faith in practice,
call it good?
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The hardest day of your life.
Certainly you have one of those?
No matter what age I am, I look back to a certain day as the day the bottom fell out of my world.
That day changes from age to age. At ten years old, a snub from someone I admired ruined my life.
Then life goes on, and our hard things change.
For teens today, cyber bullying is a real threat. I feel genuine gratitude that I didn’t have to compete in the air waves of space when I was a teen, never mind the literal air of my grass and trees community.
Young moms today who successfully navigate this world with a lofty goal in mind; who aren’t turned to the left or the right by the glitz and glitter constantly thrown at them? They deserve a medal.
Actually, anyone who can celebrate the place they are in, the circumstances of their life, and find contentment and joy, has my highest respect.
Because life has a way of piling one hard thing upon another,
and if we don’t have the substance within us,
the power of God’s grace to sustain and relieve us,
we will always fall back on the excuse of that hardest day of our life.
The day when everything changed. When God turned his back on us. And as far as we’re concerned, life held no promise anymore.
Are you thinking of your hardest day right now?
Perhaps you’re living in that “day” and it seems never ending.
But guess what.
The only person who can change the memory of that day?
Who can reverse the impact of that day on the rest of your life?
That person is
YOU.
The day I realized that I needed to
celebrate the hardest day
of my life…
wait, what? Celebrate?
Before you click away from this page, please hear me out.
You don’t have to go out and buy balloons and string streamers to celebrate a hard thing.
But somehow, with Power from the right Source, we have to be able to look back on the hard day as a landmark of better things to come, not as the tragic moment everything became hard and stayed hard.
I have no idea if I know the secret to overcoming
or if I’m just good at avoiding hard memories and blocking them out.
But my mom taught me, in those frenetic teen years,
to count my blessings.
And name them one by one. Literally. Moment by moment. Day by day.
Until the hard thing recedes slightly and you can begin to find beauty in what happened next.
The road you traveled because of the hard thing had unexpected flowers along the way. It had views you’d never have seen otherwise.
Celebrate those disrupted views with all your might.
Grab hold of good and squeeze every drop into the vessel of your heart and soul
to treasure and become gold specks
that cling and build one upon another,
until you’re walking a yellow brick road.
Because God went before us. He’s walked that road, lived those hard days, long before we were born.
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Be strong and bold; have no fear or dread of them,
because it is the Lord your God who goes before you.
He will be with you; he will not fail you or forsake you.
God, in Jesus, paved a road with blood and tears,
then promised us golden streets to walk upon.
So how dare we hold onto a hard time and let it become the rest of our life’s road?
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Be strong and courageous;
do not be frightened or dismayed,
for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
