Good day,bad day

This morning I got up a 5 am. Ok, my alarm went off at 5 but I snoozed 15 minutes. I then dragged myself out of bed and did something I haven't done for a very long time- I exercised. Weird, I know.

I've never really gone to gyms and all that kind of thing- I went to a gym for the first time last week to play racquetball. I'm a product of the home workout- pushups, situps and the like. But now, thanks to the Wii Fit, I am a little more guided in my exercises. It's awesome, and I've started seeing results in the past. I wanted to do that again.

So naturally the Wii wouldn't work. And that's the unit we bought to replace the one the kids broke. Oh how frustrating. I kept telling myself it was no big deal, but I could feel my anger and frustration building and mounting. Whatever I did, that stupid, dumb machine wouldn't load my Wii Fit disk.

Under normal circumstances I would have snapped, but I kept telling myself that it's ok, and I tried to not get overly upset. I didn't want to start my day off being upset because my stupid Wii wasbroken. On a whim, I threw the disk in the broken unit, and it worked. And I exercised. And I scored high score on a bunch of exercises, even though I haven't done it in a year. I'm just that awesome.

I know, stupid story. But it meant a lot to me. Our lives go this way a lot- we have bad days, no doubt about it. President Faust said that we won't be happy 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, and that's okay.

Some days people are cruel in what they say. Some days we wake up after staying up late looking at pornography, and it just starts the day off in a foul, disheartened mood. Some days we want so hard to be good, but for some reason are having a hard time doing that.

Don't let it get you down. Don't forget, the Atonement covers bad days as well. His grace fills in all the gaps, and can lift us up.

I take hope in that. I feel more and more that the Atonement is a loving, kind act. And we can have hope in that. It all starts with wanting to be good. That leads us to hoping we can become good, which leads us to faith. And just the idea that can happen gives me hope that my bad days can lead to good ones.