The Best Day of your Life
We watched another Christmas movie and a couple asked each other what was the best day of your life? They ended up creating their best day together.
I think it would be nearly impossible to choose only one day as the best day. Life is full of days that might fall in the top ten though. For me, the best days of my life were the days that each of my children were born, Michael, December 7th, Deborah, January 7th, Chris, December 20th and Jim, June 12th. Then there is the day I met Lou Ann for the first time and instantly liked her even though we would not get together for three more years. Then New Years Eve, 1982 we were married in Scottsdale AZ with our children present. I also got to perform weddings for my son Michael and his bride Pearl and for Lou Ann’s daughter Uma who married Dave on a beach in Hawaii.
So many days in seventy seven years. There have also been the worst days of my life, mixed in with the best. I won’t go into the details of many of those. In retrospect though, some of the worst days have turned out to also be some of the best. I guess that might be true for most of us. As I look back upon my life I remember the deaths of loved ones, business losses, loss of homes in Virginia. They pale in comparison to all the joy and wonder and magic of all the other days which would be most days! I remember too, I was blessed to be the pastor of a church here in Sedona for about three and a half years. There were about fifty folks who would show up on Sunday and we would laugh and cry and celebrate life in a wonderful way. Those Sundays were also some of the best days of my life.
I invite you to take some time after reading this post to reminisce about your life and see what were your best days. And perhaps like me, discover what might have been a worst day when it happened, that turned out to be a best day. I wish for you that all the days of your life from now on will be exactly what your heart desires them to be! From my thankful heart to yours, Thomas