On all the day's that end in "WHY".

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This post title is not completely original with me.  So I cannot fully take the credit for it.

The other day I decided that these reproduction kitchen towels needed to be washed.

As I was hanging them on the line, the thought occurred to me (me, being my usual anal self) that I should be hanging these in the correct order. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday...

Yes! I really, honestly, had that thought go through my mind.  Can you believe it??  I almost can't... and I'm like this - a lot!

Well, I didn't.

I didn't change anything. Instead,  I left them as they were and kept thinking about the many, many times that our days feel just like this - so mixed up and out of order.  We can't tell one day from the next... they're full of nonsense, upheaval, chaos and... you name it.  It happens.

Throughout our mixed-up days we're often left with questions that begin and end with WHY?

Like I mentioned, the title to this post is not 100% original with me.  There is a Southern Gospel song out there that I fell in love with.  I just currently can't remember who sings it - two different artists sing this.

But it's a song that talks about this: that our Gracious Heavenly Father knows our days; they are ordered by him and for all of the questions - the whys? -  no matter which day of the week it is.... He is faithful to walk through each moment of that day with us. 

I love that.  And,  I need that for encouragement in the days to come... I think we all do.  Why?  I'm not sure, other then that as God's dearly beloved children - we need him to sustain our very being.  What feels so out of our control (so often) is really ALL in his hands.

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Do not say, "Why were the old days are better then these?  For it is wise to not ask such questions.

Consider what God has done:

Who can straighten what he has made crooked? 

When times are good, be happy; but when

times are bad, consider God had made the one

as well as the other.  Therefore a man cannot discover

anything about his future. 

~ Ecclesiastes 7: 10, 13- 14