April 22, 2012

• Better Days

  With the long drives that I was making almost daily over the recent months, I had started listening to a lot of my older music in an effort to keep me awake and perky.  On one of those trips I picked a CD I had made of songs to workout to when I was in college.  I had actually just transferred colleges and started school in Virginia.  I was dealing with a lot during that time, especially struggling in a new theatre department and not getting along with my professors.  I let my frustrations out on the cardio machines after class four days a week.

  There was one song I became particularly attached to during that time and I would often listen to it over and over.  It is called Better Days by Point of Grace.  Theologically, I’m not a hundred percent on par with it, but for the most part its positive message got me through that school year.  The chorus says:

  Better Days are on the way, my friend,
  Just aways on down the line.
  I believe that just around the bend,
  Everything’s gonna be fine.

  Better Days are just a dream right now.
  It’s like all you do is pray.
  But the world keeps turning
  Bringing you Better Days.

  It hit me the other day while I was driving that NOW are the Better Days I so desperately wanted back then.

  I’ve married a man I love.
  I have a hearing dog that helps me in countless ways.
  I’ve gotten to “start over” in a brand new city.
  I have a job in a library that I love.
  I have a job with a Deaf Theater that has the potential to turn into something amazing.
  I’ve just moved into a new apartment that God Himself provided for us.

  And that’s just to name a few.

  When I was listening to that song on the elliptical machines that long time ago, I was overwhelmed and depressed and praying for better days but unable to imagine what that might even look like.  But here I am, 5 years later, so thankful that God does keep the world turning, bringing me my very own Better Days.  He is faithful, and able to do abundantly more than we could ask or imagine!

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