I will praise you for it's all I have to give.
There was a girl that served with me at camp that loved the phrase "Praise God!" It didn't matter the situation, she would always reply with "Praise God!" It was good, cause it got you in that mindset of praising God for everything. But it was also bad, because half the time she said it, the last thing I wanted to do was praise God. Things were going badly, they weren't working out as planned, they weren't going to how I felt they should go, it was not the time to be praising God, it was the time to be complaining to God!
But by week 5, I was just like her, praising God for everything, even the "bad" times, because however it turned out was how God wanted it to turn out. Coming back to the real world, I kinda slowly lost my constant "praise God" response. But randomly, for no reason at all, this past week I found myself saying it. Multiple times on the float trip I went on with my parish, a few times today at work.
As I was listening to this song on my way home, and thinking about my friend and her favorite phrase, I realized this week has been a complete week (or more) of things not going my way. And instead of praising God, I have been complaining. But God does have a reason for everything, so...
I'm sunburned, Praise God! I'm still not unpacked from moving, Praise God! I still don't have internet in my apartment even though I should, Praise God! Canceling the cable at the old apartment is going to be more complicated than I thought, Praise God! There are a million and one things on my list that should have been completed last week, Praise God! God, I know there must be a reason for all this "bad" things in my life right now. Please help me to see that reason, and help me to continue to praise you, even when I don't like the situation.
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