Let the Shoe Drop

Today, the weather was outstanding. Everywhere I went everyone was almost electrified at how excited we were about how amazing the weather was.

The weather has been so ridiculously hot…and we are all ready for cooler days. It seems that we are just ready for any good news..sunshine, candles that smell good. Pumpkin patches…all simple pleasures…and all available now.

After taking my daughter to violin and catching up on appointments, answering emails. A quick trip to the pediatrician to get her Covid shot…and I found my insurance card (the pediatrician had it). Then off to pick up my candle that came in…smells fabulous. Even went to McDonald’s for a breakfast sandwich. They were fast and friendly and got the order right…I’m telling ya…it was like electric!

Then we head to our favorite pumpkin patch..nice little drive. We round the corner where my favorite barn is picturesque and it hits me….

That nagging whisper that always comes at me. Enjoy today…because something bad is coming around the corner..that’s why your having such a good day…something bad is coming.

Why do I do that? I had to refocus…and pray because I knew that was Satan talking. Hasn’t God taken care of the pesky problems already hasn’t He made a way when there was NO way. Hasn’t he turned my ashes into gold. Enjoy the day that the Lord has made. I fret and I worry and I dream up solutions to problems that don’t even exist. I cry as I imagine things that will happen to my children that haven’t happened…and I find myself completely in a anxious state…close to having an anxiety attack…all because I listened to the lies of Satan…

As to not frighten my daughter, and yell get behind me Satan. I refocused. Turned the praise music louder…said a prayer of thanks for my car, my daughter, our store, our staff, my children, our home. Said a word of thanks as I drove past my friends business. I repeated the gifts that God has given me…I repeated that He is indeed good…even when we canNOT feel Him.

Then, we went to the pumpkin patch…and we repeated how beautiful the weather was and that today was the day for pumpkins…because it was…

Sometimes…..we lose out on the joy of life because we are waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Take the blessings of today and enjoy them…the trials will come…but enjoy the gift that is today.