I shared with the event staff here this week a lesson I am learning from my kids.
It seems that in our house, when the kids are having a great day, each of those days gets the same title, BEST DAY EVER!!!!and is usually accompanied by cheering and pounding of fists on a table, chair or any object close.
BEST DAY EVER!!!! status or BDE as we shall now refer to it can come about from any number of circumstances. Most of them consist of ice cream, baseball, Wii, movies, or food of any kind eaten not at home. A combination of more than one of these can result in multiple BDE exaltation's in one day.
What caught my attention however was the frequency with which these announcements were being made. As a seasoned (read old) adult, BDE announcement are few and far between. They are reserved for important life milestones like marriage, birth of children, tax refunds and well, baseball games or certain food items.
But upon further investigation, I realized my kids were teaching me a profound truth. Every day really has the potential to be a BDE, I just don't live that way. I can tell you right now the days I would forecast would be a BDE but those days rarely just show up. For my kids though, each day is ripe with the promise of becoming the latest BDE.
I think they have tapped into something deeper though. The thing that makes today good, bearable, worth getting out of bed for or dare I say hopeful is something that was solved thousands of years ago on a cross. Since that is figured out, today really is the BDE. If that isn't solved, no amount of ice cream, baseball games, family movie nights complete with popcorn AND candy could make it good. Just think about it. If things are not well with my soul, what I do and what happens means jack nothing.
So here's to my kids for teaching me. And here's to us living each day like it is a BDE because it is. Even if junk happens. Even if we don't get our way. Even if we don't enjoy some of the moments in that day, it's still awesome.
It seems that in our house, when the kids are having a great day, each of those days gets the same title, BEST DAY EVER!!!!and is usually accompanied by cheering and pounding of fists on a table, chair or any object close.
BEST DAY EVER!!!! status or BDE as we shall now refer to it can come about from any number of circumstances. Most of them consist of ice cream, baseball, Wii, movies, or food of any kind eaten not at home. A combination of more than one of these can result in multiple BDE exaltation's in one day.
What caught my attention however was the frequency with which these announcements were being made. As a seasoned (read old) adult, BDE announcement are few and far between. They are reserved for important life milestones like marriage, birth of children, tax refunds and well, baseball games or certain food items.
But upon further investigation, I realized my kids were teaching me a profound truth. Every day really has the potential to be a BDE, I just don't live that way. I can tell you right now the days I would forecast would be a BDE but those days rarely just show up. For my kids though, each day is ripe with the promise of becoming the latest BDE.
I think they have tapped into something deeper though. The thing that makes today good, bearable, worth getting out of bed for or dare I say hopeful is something that was solved thousands of years ago on a cross. Since that is figured out, today really is the BDE. If that isn't solved, no amount of ice cream, baseball games, family movie nights complete with popcorn AND candy could make it good. Just think about it. If things are not well with my soul, what I do and what happens means jack nothing.
So here's to my kids for teaching me. And here's to us living each day like it is a BDE because it is. Even if junk happens. Even if we don't get our way. Even if we don't enjoy some of the moments in that day, it's still awesome.
