I have had such a busy few days...but here I am again, finally. I have been challenging myself to try to write every day but the things which have been occupying my time were all good. That is the theme for the day; whatever is good...that is what we should be concentrating on. In a world filled with bad things, we must remember why the world is broken.(it was because of man). It is easy to forget that when God created our world He said that it was good...that we were good. When Adam and Eve chose disobedience over trust everything changed.

Phlippians 4:8 reminds me that there is still goodness...our defiance was not able to change a thing about our Creator. He is good. Our society has dumbed down many words and unfortunately good is one of them. We use it to describe our feelings, the weather, or a slice of pizza that we have just eaten. When God declared everything that He had created as good, He was declaring it as perfect in every way.

I know it is difficult to look around and find good some days...when I am having trouble all I have to do is take a look at God's character, and remember that Jesus chose to come to the earth to die to save me. There are reminders every time a baby laughs or a warm breeze brushes through you hair.... when birds are chirping on a sunny spring morning and when puppies and kittens roll and tumble, fluffy with new life. There are beautiful colors and endless varieties of every plant and living creature. There are majestic mountains and glorious oceans and cannons filled with the beauty of layered time. There is goodness found when a stranger helps you for no apparent reason and when a mother nurtures her child, when a daughter cares for her aging mother or a toddler learns to sing. There is goodness in music and dancing and painting, in language and hearing....there is goodness abounding if only we will look for it. Today I challenge you to look for the good things, and then thank the one who made them. Our Father is good, and everything that he has made is good.

"O Lord how great you are! You are robed with honor and majesty. You are dressed in a robe of light. You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens; you lay the rafters of your home in the rain clouds. You make the clouds your chariot; you ride upon the wind. You placed the world on its foundation so it would never be moved. You clothed the earth with floods of water, water that covered the mountains. At your command the water fled; at the sound of your thunder, it hurried away. Mountains rose and valleys sank to the levels you decreed...The Lord takes pleasure in all that he has made!...Let all that I am praise the Lord!" - Psalm104:1-8,32,35

It is up to you what you decide to look at today, and also up to you whether you thank the one who created it. Have a good day.