If you want to be great, you need to have a plan

Just another day

Not getting a parking ticket.
The vast greatness of God that hits you and then shrinks your problems down to size in the moment when you stand staring at the ocean.
Peace.
Coffee breaks.
People letting you know that they're praying for you.
Meetings gone well.
The freedom to be who I am and not try to fit in to a mold that didn't make me.
Tiredness and hard laughs.
A hundred ways to see God in a day.
Food.
Generosity that goes beyond the point of possible return.
Listening ears.

So many random little things to be thankful for in one day. :)  It's amazing how I tend to miss all this stuff when I feel like things are under control. 

What kind of a blessing comes from days gone haywire?  This kind.  Ahhh, happiness....  The calm after a storm and joy after a trial always seem sweeter than they were the day before.

We do things and wish we hadn't; we say things that we wish we never thought; we think we've learned lessons the hard way, only to find that we're doing it all wrong again....

That's a circle I take over and over again.  Sometimes it's on the edge of burying me in discouragement and then I go around one more time.

We do things we wish we hadn't and He forgives us; we say things we wish we'd never thought and He dries our tears; we think we've learned lessons the hard way....and He still welcomes our confession.  He blots out all of our sins against Him, He holds us in His arms, He forgives us for not resting in Him, He takes our burden, He leads us home.

And now I'm not so sad I went around the circle again because the more I can see that I've been forgiven, the more I can know how much He loves.

His mercies are new every morning.