By 5:40am I had yelled at the dog and fussed at Carolyn!

I had only been up 10 minutes. That is a great way to start the day. By 9am I had run into two others (no one was physically or emotionally injured I think) who had started the day in a similar fashion. That sounds like trouble. Oh yes, I could list all of my reasons. That usually does little to no good. All it does is make me feel justified in my misery for a moment. Sometimes it helps us to place blame on others as a way of deflection for our own responsibility.

I am reading the Psalms right now. I was trying to read 5 psalms a day but not so much anymore. Once you get to Psalm 100. They get longer and longer so 5 a day is not as easy. I read through Psalm 109. It startled me. However, this seems fitting for today and how I feel about today.  I have selected a few verses Ps. 109 6-10 The Message. You WILL get the picture.  

• When he’s judged, let the verdict be “Guilty,” and when he prays, let his prayer turn to sin.
• Give him a short life, and give his job to somebody else.
• Make orphans of his children, dress his wife in widow’s weeds; Turn his children into begging street urchins, evicted from their homes—homeless.
• May the bank foreclose and wipe him out, and strangers, like vultures, pick him clean.
• Chop down his family tree so that nobody even remembers his name.
• But erect a memorial to the sin of his father, and make sure his mother’s name is there, too—
  Their sins recorded forever before God, but they themselves sunk in oblivion.
• Since he loved cursing so much, let curses rain down;
  Since he had no taste for blessing, let blessings flee far from him.
• That’s what they’ll get, those out to get me—an avalanche of just deserts from God.

Well that is clear, the writer does not like the guy at all.
But there is another side…there always is. Notice what has happened to the writer in all of his anger.

Oh, God, my Lord, step in; work a miracle for me—you can do it!
Get me out of here—your love is so great!— I’m at the end of my rope, my life in ruins.
I’m fading away to nothing, passing away, my youth gone, old before my time.
I’m weak from hunger and can hardly stand up, my body a rack of skin and bones.
I’m a joke in poor taste to those who see me; they take one look and shake their heads. Psalm 109:21-25 The Message

That which he wished on his enemy has happened to him. The rest of the psalm is the answer to my attitude for today and yours for the next difficult time. It is to focus on God, cry out for his protection and rescue and rejoice in your salvation at the hand of God.

My mouth’s full of great praise for God, I’m singing his hallelujahs surrounded by crowds,
For he’s always at hand to take the side of the needy, to rescue a life from the unjust judge. Psalm 109:30-31 The Message

Just when I thought the Bible would justify my bad attitude there I am laid waste. So, my prayer was/is God please protect your light from my attitude of toad and would you change my attitude so that your Light Jesus can be seen.

The day is looking up. Dad is so good like that.  

In HIS Service and Yours

BroG