To say I struggled with my attitude today at work today is an understatement. I was supposed to head home on a flight this afternoon, but could not due to an unforeseen work commitment. So now I have a 5:30am flight, and therefore a 3:30am wake up. Nice.

Because of this unforeseen work commitment, I also didn’t leave the office until about 8:30pm tonight, and that makes for a 13 hour day, as my first meeting this morning was at 7:30am. Woe is me.

As I drove down to the hotel tonight, I started thinking about some of the Scriptures I’ve been reading lately. Things like:

• my help comes from the Lord
• the Lord sent me
• lay aside every sin and weight
• he who began a good work in you will complete it
• be still before the Lord
• we who by God’s power are being guarded
• share in suffering
• God tested him
• He is the God who sees
• He has redeemed my soul
• He who testifies for me is on high
• the Lord sustained me
• the Lord will keep you
• suffering according to God’s will
• the Lord upholds all who are falling
• He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds

I could keep going.

I get caught up in the brokenness of the world. Daily life that is just hard. You get the crap kicked out of you. There is constant strife and chaos. The printer won’t work. The customer yelled at me. I missed the stairs in my sister’s cabin and seriously sprained my ankle (it’s propped up right now with an ice pack over it). I took my skis all the way to AZ (via two trips to DC), only to arrive to no snow. Feels like I’m never home, working a job that doesn’t pay enough. My to do list at work sprouts three new items for every one I complete. I have a middle seat on the longest leg of my journey home tomorrow.

From this hotel-room-leg-propped-up vantage point, I am reminded that His words for us written and given to us in the context of this hard life. He knows we need to know that He sees us. He knows we need to know our present suffering is for a purpose and won’t last forever. He knows we need to hear that He will heal us, sustain us, keep us, redeem us, help us, send us, testify for us, rescue us. He gives these words to sustain us on this journey through this broken world.

So, in spite of my terrible attitude today, may I remember these truths tomorrow through 3:30am wake ups and three-hour-middle-seat flights.