Blessed by a stranger leaving Panera Bread
I have been writing quite a bit lately about the confounding peace that I am experiencing in the midst of all the unhappiness. I am quite surprised by it all even as I experience brief moments of joy and happiness. I am trying to keep this all in perspective as I know that there will be good days and bad days and a lot of Blah days. Today was a bad day. I’m just really discouraged. I know intellectually that I’ll get through it and tomorrow will be a better day. But right now I’m just down. I can’t do anything to fix my situation or make it better and that is the frustrating part of it all. The only thing I can do is just not make it any worse and endure. I have found a good strategy when these moods come upon me (other than the obvious with a lot of prayer and praise) is to call it a day and go to sleep early. That surprisingly has been quite effective. Yet at 8:41 pm as I write this, I just can’t bring myself to go to ...