Bad red light day

My day started out bad. I cannot drink coffee made with city water. I have to buy water to make coffee because Atlanta water is putrid. My wife made coffee with city water this morning. It was horrible and I spit it out. I “need’ my coffee in the morning.

I was driving to work this morning without having my first cup of coffee and experienced a very bad red light day that put me in a very bad mood. Every traffic light I encountered on my way in to work seemed to be red. I would wait through it and then proceed about fifty feet only to encounter another; they were timed perfectly to stop anyone trying to go anywhere. One red light had cars backed up for a quarter of a mile and had to change several times before I could get it to stay green long enough for me to escape its wrath. Next I was in the midst of an industrial area and in the pitch black dark morning a red light stopped me without another car being within sight in any direction and stayed red for an interminable amount of time. I was seething mad at the ineptitude of all traffic light engineers in Atlanta and just ran that “bad boy” with reckless abandon laughing derivisely and oblivious to the chance a red light cop might be observing me just waiting to give me a ticket.

I got to work and my computer had not shut down properly when I left home yesterday and the battery was completely drained due to it being on for an entire day and night. That royally messed up all of my settings and desktop configuration. I spent a half an hour trying to get a screen size big enough for me to see and configure it whereby I could access my toolbars.

Finally I could access Word and as I started typing WFTD my insert key was locked and in the course of writing this WFTD I erased every other word. This happened twice! This was further complicated by the fact that I can only see blurs when I try to read anything as I forgot my reading glasses this morning. I had to increase the print size by 150% just to see it.

That is how my day is going; how is yours? Some days it just seems as if it does not pay to get up. I try hard to make the best of these situations, but I must admit I am not where I need to be in that regard. I read the verse below this morning and it calmed me down considerably; however I am waiting like a sheep led to slaughter for the “hammer to fall” again. It is comforting to know that perhaps I will not be “utterly cast down” and the Lord is holding me in His hand, but in all honesty it is a little hard to smile. I assume it can only get better?

Psalm 37:23
The steps of a good man are
ordered by the lord,
And He delights in his way.
Though he fall, he shall not
be utterly cast down;
for the Lord upholds him with
His hand.