Having a bad day?

Have you ever had a bad day? The kind of day where nothing seems to go right? You're just glad that it is over hoping that tomorrow brings something brighter. Then there are those bad days that bleed into tomorrow. The problem occurred today and tomorrow promises only consequences. Also, bad days are a matter of perspective. What is bad for one person might be insignificant to another. While one person is a habitual worrier, another let's things slide off them. But then there are the kind of days that will affect your life forever. Such a day happened for two little girls that I have recently fallen in love with - one is 6 and her older sister is 9. One day the girls returned home from school to be given news that would rock even the toughest of us to the core..."your Mom died today." Her passing was sudden, unexpected and completely devastating to these two little girls who are now being raised by their Grandmother, a most lovely lady who truly cares for these precious children.

I remember the first Sunday I went to pick the girls up for Church. The younger sister got on my van without reservation...but her older sibling felt sick and didn't come. This pattern continued for a few weeks, only for me to discover that she was afraid to leave her Grandmother for fear that when she got home Grandma would be dead. Yes, that was a bad day that would affect this little girl for the rest of her life.

I am delighted to say that she now attends The Salvation Army programs with little reservation. I always get a hug from both sisters, and she always gives me a beautiful smile and says, "do I know you?" I don't know for sure but I do wonder, when I see that delightful smile, if shes just glad to see me again and how much she must value seeing people again knowing that she will never, on this side of heaven, see her mother again.

Life has its trials, and sure has its bad days, but I hold dear the words of our Savior who said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." In this world people come and go, we are born and we die, but we must always remember, and I want these two little girls to understand, that Jesus will always be there for us.