Katie's prayer: LFO's "Life is Good"

So I know what you’re thinking... LFO isn’t a Christian artist, this isn’t a Christian song. I know. But as I was driving home from work, this song came on. It reminded me of yesterday’s prayer song. And I realized that yesterday’s song (and today’s song) really went with how my life went today (see actual prayer blog below). So because of this, and after talking about it with God, I think I’m going to change how I go about choosing the song for today. Instead of choosing at random a song at the beginning of the day, I’m just going to listen to all sorts of music throughout the day, and if one really speaks to me, I’ll blog about it and pray with it. Sometimes, that may mean it’s not a Christian song. But that’s ok. The point of this blog is not to get me more familiar with all the Christian songs in my itunes, but to pray more. And I feel this way will help me to pray more songs throughout the day instead of one song over and over again. We’ll see how well it goes. (: On to today’s prayer...

life is good, life is great
life is unbelievable
life is hard, life is cruel
life is so beautiful

Again, this song was similar to yesterday’s in the fact that it talks about how horrible life is and then immediately says life is beautiful. I’m not sure if I fully understood this yesterday. Yes, I understood that no matter how life goes, God still loves me. But today challenged me to think that no matter how hard my day is, life is still beautiful. And today was a hard day. It was the final deadline for NCYC registrations, as of this morning, I was still waiting on paperwork from 2 parishes but they were supposed to drop it off before I got in. I was expecting to go in and work for maybe 3 hours.

Well, only one of the parishes had their paperwork there. 3 hours of work quickly turned into 6 hours of work. There were more bumps in the day than I expected, more headaches, and more uses of the white out correction thing. And lucky me, it’s not over. After today, a lot of my stress is gone, but there’s different stress now. Stress about hotel rooms, and late fees, and t-shirt sizes, and hard rock cafe orders, and that phone call I know I’m going to get on Monday from a mean group leader, and what if what I turned in today wasn’t perfect, and what if it doesn’t get post marked by today, and what if I somehow failed in my job. Life is hard, life is cruel.

But praise God, today is Friday, the beginning of the weekend! Tonight’s a girls’ night, tomorrow a birthday party, and Sunday night off (a rare occurrence for me)! Life is beautiful. I’m working with a bunch of Catholics on this conference, so they’ve got to be forgiving if I mess up, right? And if I did mess up something, there’s no way I messed up that bad. I just have to survive this next month and then I’ll be able to really see that life is beautiful all the time!

Dear Jesus, help me make it through this next month!