"For this is God's will for you..."

So i hate Wednesdays. let it be known. and they come around so often... it feels like i go through

two wednesdays for every tuesday that rolls around(i love tuesdays!).

for six days of the week, i try to be a generally pleasant person to be around, and maintain a positive attitude.

but for some reason, every time that wednesday comes around, i allow myself to be grumpy, and worried, and untalkative.

this morning was no different.

i really didn't want to get out of bed.

and i had to wash my hair.

plus, i was dreading accounting.

and anabaptist history.

and the lit test that i had completely forgotten about. (except that at that point, i had not yet remembered that i had forgotten about it, but still... i had a feeling that i should be dreading lit for some reason. turns out i was right. always trust your gut feeling...)

and choir.

and i definitely didn't feel like playing basketball at lunch.

and since my classes today were accounting, anabaptist history, lit, and choir (with some basketball thrown in there at lunch), i was not looking forward to this day. plus, i was kind of angry that it wasn't a snow day. (yes, i deal with this anger pretty much every single morning.)

and so i resentfully got out of bed and got ready for school.

but the thing is, i had a really good day. like, an amazing day. i don't know how my day could have been better! (unless, of course, i had studied for the lit test. that would have improved my day- as well as my grade- by like, 20% or something). i came home feeling so happy, which was the opposite of how i was feeling when i left home this morning. this stood out to me because i have just kind of accepted that wednesdays are destined to be bad days for me, and i don't even try to make them good days. i don't even notice the good things that happen on wednesdays, because i'm so busy focusing on the things that i hate about them!

but when i got home from school today, i started thinking about this. and wondering why, exactly, i thought it was okay to just allow myself to feel grumpy, simply because i dislike my schedule for the day.

and then i found this Bible verse: "Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." -1 Thess. 5:16-18

notice how it doesn't say "be joyful on mondays, tuesdays, thursdays, fridays, saturdays, and sundays? it says to be joyful always! and that includes Wednesdays! and any other day that i might be dreading, for whatever reason.

it also says to give thanks in ALL circumstances! in fact, it says that it is God's will for us to give thanks in all circumstances. and this really stood out to me, because it seems like lately, i've spent a lot of time thinking about God's will for me, and praying that He would help me follow His will, and that i would be able to see it.

But this verse directly states God's will for me (for ALL of His people!). He wants us to be joyful, and to give thanks in every situation! even on wednesdays! even when we don't feel like we have anything to be thankful for!

so from now on, i'm gonna do my best to remember to always be joyful.

and it totally helps that this was the last wednesday in semester one, which means that i will soon have a completely new schedule.

but even if it was only the third wednesday of semester one, and i was just realizing that wednesdays are long, hard days, i would still try to have a better attitude about them.

this doesn't just apply to wednesdays. it applies to whatever part of your life seems unbearable or scary or unpleasant.

today was just a good reminder to me that God has made every day! and if God has made every day, i need to glorify Him as much as i possibly can every single day.

in other news... this was waiting for me when i got home from school tonight!! so exciting!!!

it's my new bed, in case you couldn't tell!

details to follow shortly. =) (in my big, happy, end-of-january post! can't wait for january to be over so that i can write about everything that has happened to me this month! it's been a good one!)