Todd's Bad Awful Day

There is a children's book that my kids love for me to read them. It is Grover's Bad Awful Day. You can probably guess what it is about.

Grover wakes up late in the process of trying to hurry out of bed he stubs his furry toe. While getting ready his toothpaste fell off his toothbrush, he lost the toothpaste cap down the drain, his fur was all tangled, he poured milk on the table instead of his cereal and he got to class late.

At play group he kept messing up his picture during Art class, he forgot part of his alphabet, music class didn't go so well, his friends wouldn't let him play with him and at lunchtime he realized he forgot his lunch at home.

On his way home from play group he dropped his ice cream cone on the ground, it started raining, one of his rain boots got stuck in gum and he had to walk the rest of the way home with only one boot.

But here is where the story takes a turn. He gets home and his mommy is there and he tells her all about his bad, awful day. All of a sudden there's a perspective change and with her assurance he comes to realize that he can get through bad, awful days and be okay.

Yesterday was a bad, awful day for Todd. He woke up and left for town to get items we needed for the house while in town the car died at an intersection. After being pulled home by his uncle he decided to mow the yard, while mowing the tire came off the mower. He was going to run back into town to get a part for the mower and when he got in the van the battery was dead.

That is a bad, awful day. But, even better than Grover's mommy we have the Father with whom we can run to and He can change our perspective on a day like that. We can rejoice in those bad, awful days. We can say, "This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." Psalm 118:24.

Thank you honey that on your bad, awful day you sought peace from our Heavenly Father and allowed Him to turn it into a day to rejoice in Him in all things.