i had a good day today

i had an unexpected good day today. today, Sunday, November 20th, 2005, i had a really good day today.
this morning i went to a church service that i did not want to go to. after the church service, i went to the store, which i did not feel like doing today. this afternoon, i watched a football game that i could care less about. and yes, i had a really, really good day today.
the church i attend with my wife is a rather large church, around three thousand members. they usually have four different services each week. one on saturday night and three on sunday morning. but this week, however, we had one huge church gathering at one of the local highschool gyms. only one service this week. i went, i didn't want to, but i went. i am not the biggest fan of large crowds.
allow me to back up a bit. for the last six weeks, my wife Stephanie and i have been a part of a small group of young married couples. we met on wenesday nights. to tell the truth, it was not high on my list of priorities. i think i went to three out of the four weeks. but i said i would try it, so i did my best to stick it out. this past wednesday was the last week of the six weeks and Stephanie and i went to our group meeting. it was about the same, not so bad once we got there, but not the most fun thing i have ever done. but this week we did something a little bit different, Stephanie and i. we stayed and chatted with the other couples for a little while after the meeting. turns out, their kinda cool. in fact, they seemed really cool, they were other young couples about our age, in the same areas of life as we are walking through. anyway, there was mention of continuing the group, continuing to meet every wednesday night. my wife and i jumped for the chance. although we had an excuse all planned out and everything, we felt ourselves excited at the chance to continue to meet with these people, to continue to grow in relationships with these couples. we left that meeting with an unexpected excitment.
back to today. went to the church service that i didn't really want to attend. before the service started, out of all the people in that gym, across the room, i spotted one of the couples from our group. out of no where, i wanted to take my wife and make our way to them just to say hello. they were our friends. once the service started, on the stage, there was one of the guys from our group playing the guitar and singing. i only met this guy a few weeks ago, but he was one of the guys in our group, i felt proud. as the preacher taught, i'm pretty sure he was just talking to me. somehow, in that service, i left feeling more blessed than i had ever dreamed of.
on the way home, we had to stop by the store, i really didn't feel like it, but we needed to, so we went to the store. as we pulled into the parking lot, we heard the song on the radio by Third Day, "Cry Out to Jesus". as soon as we got home, i downloaded that whole album by Third Day. i'm sure i have listened to the song "Cry Out to Jesus" 20 times today. Somewhere, out of nowhere, my wife and i had a really great, close time just walking through the store. it was the best time i have ever had in a store.
and yes, today i watched the colts win. i watched the whole game with my wife. it was a great game. if you know me, you know this is big, it's big because i don't care a thing about sports. but today, i really enjoyed the whole game. this makes us 10-0. yes, i'm proud of our colts.
today, it was a good day. Praise God today, it was a Good Day!
A Good Day is not possible without Him who created Days.