Winston Salem church of Christ

Yesterday was not a good day.  Exhausted from a gospel meeting the previous week, I slept late that morning.  Then working late to make up for the lost time, I didn’t get home until after 8:00 PM.  My two daughters had left for a Bible Study and sleep over.  Didn’t get to see them all day.  My two sons gave me a hug and went back to playing – they had already eaten, so I sat down to eat supper with my wife.

Yesterday was not a good day, even though I got a lot of good work done.  Still, it wasn’t a good day.  Today I got reminded of that by reading Proverbs.  That is one of the wonders from the word – how it can gently chastise us.  Proverbs 2-7 all begin with the phrase, “My son” except for chapter 4 which reads, “sons.”  These chapters are all filled with a father simply talking to his son about life, decisions, and what makes for good days, bad days, and a good life.  In fact, have we ever noticed how simply talking with our children makes for a good day?

Let’s all calculate in our own mind how long we actually spent with our children yesterday.  And I don’t mean sitting in front of a TV or watching a movie.  I mean talking, playing, walking, doing something that truly requires our presence.  Did we have a good day?  Did we have a bad day?  While we all have bad days from time to time – after all we do have responsibilities – the goal is to have more good days than bad.  Or else we will wake up one day to discover that yesteryear was not a good life.