This week has been very event-full! In addition to preparing for what turned out to be a very great Easter service see pics here and have back to back meetings for work and for church, I had a bad day. Today. Today was a day of hurt for me surrounding my ex-job. Let’s just say I saw the ‘true colors’ of a particular person and wow…it scared me. But no need to go into it…you see because I am free. Just yesterday I was talking to a few friends about how sometimes in life you meet people that hurt you deeply and sometimes we react by closing ourselves off for all other relationships or sometimes we choose to live in spite of the pain we receive. We choose to see that its still a wonderful world…even if ________ (you fill in the blank).

Yeah, I was hurt today. But I will survive and thrive! I always do by the grace of God. I’ve learned that I can’t worry about other people’s lack of judgement, knowledge or emotion. I’ve learned that I can’t close myself off to others just because I had a few rotten apples on the yellow brick road. God don’t like ugly as a friend reminded me today. People will get what they deserve eventually and we may never see it. Our roles as individuals is to evaluate, evaluate, evaluate ourselves…to keep growing and enjoying the world and the goodness of God in it in spite of the darkness we also find in it. There are good days and then there are bad days…today was a bad day. So what did I do? I came home, changed into my bathing suit and did a few laps around the pool, then I laid down in the pool lounger and looked up at the beautiful Fl sky and heard this song in my head…

What a Wonderful World
Louis Armstrong

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They’re really saying I love you.

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more than I’ll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world.

In spite of the hurtful deeds of others, in spite of the undeserved acts done to us by others…its still a wonderful world. I thank God that I can say that even as I cry typing this (delayed reaction). God is good, HIS love endures forever and bottomline that is all I really need isn’t it?