Choosing Joy on the Hard Days
By: Maggie Meadows Cooper "Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty, yet I will rejoice in the Lord!" - Habakkuk 3:17-18 NLT It is raining. Again. It feels like it's been raining for ten years straight here in Alabama. And I'm so desperately craving sunshine and blue skies and big puffy white clouds. But that's not all. There are just so many little things weighing on my heart. Areas where I feel like I'm failing. The little mundane things like my dirty house and piles of dishes and laundry. And "training my children in the way they should go" is just exhausting. Many of these things aren't big in the grand scheme of life. But they matter to me. And as I find myself in this place of just being ill and frustrated and blah today, I know that I have to find joy. I have to choose to find joy. Because my babies and others around me are watching. A long time ago, I decided that I would praise the Lord in the good. And in the bad. As I read in Habakkuk today, I came across this beautiful reminder that he made the same choice long ago: | 
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