My Many Colored Days

This is my favorite children's book; I have read it so many times I know it by heart, and it is wearing down quickly with most the pages falling out. I have read it allowed to many children, and I love to add dramatization to each page showcasing the different feelings that we encounter as humans. Yes, we are human...so why is it that we often tend to beat ourselves up for who we are?

We make mistakes, we feel things, we react to circumstances, we love, we laugh, we cry, we scream, we breathe, we live!!

Yet, if I have a bad day, a bad thought, a tantrum, a night of soaking my pillow in tears....I let those moments try to define who I am, and I think I am a horrible, messed up person. No...I am just human.

In this book, Dr. Seuss (and this book is very different from most of his books) attaches a color with a feeling or emotion. For example, "Then all of a sudden I'm a circus seal! On my Orange Days, that's how I feel." Or, "Green Days. Deep deep in the sea. Cool and quiet fish. That's me." And the one that I feel like I have been displaying a lot this last few weeks, "Then comes my Black Days. MAD. And LOUD. I howl. I growl at every cloud."

I just passionately adore this book. At the end, after going through this array of feelings and creatively showing how humans can change emotions throughout their days...Dr. Seuss reveals the comfort in all of this mess of mood swings we deal with; "But it all turns out all right, you see. And I go back to being...me."

Now, this is what I take from this book every time I read it...AND I REALLY NEEDED IT TODAY! I may, as a human, go through the roller coaster of emotions depending on what life hands my way...or even just because I am a woman, I may changes moods for no reason at all...lol...but...

It is OK! I am me in the mist of the messy moods: I am me when I am laughing so hard I can't breathe. I am me when I am relaxing and enjoying a good book. I am me when I am screaming at the unfairness of life. I am me when I am crying over loneliness. I am me when I am winning at games (had to throw that in). I am me when I am enjoying time with friends and family. I am me when I have a bad hair day. I am me when I lose my patience. I am me when my graceful self breaks something, and I am me when my heart is breaking. I am me when I fail. And I am me when I succeed. In all that, it doesn't matter the good, the bad, the ugly...the most important...and the only thing that truly defines me is this: I AM A CHILD OF GOD!

I am fearfully and wonderfully made in His image, and He knows me better than anyone else...and guess what...HE STILL LOVES ME!

So none of the ups and downs matter. He is my stable center!

GUESS WHAT....HE LOVES YOU TOO!

So no matter what mood you are in right now, Jesus loves you more than you can ever imagine. Find peace in that today.