There Will Be Days...

There will be days you won't want to get out of bed. There will be days that you just want to ignore the world, hide in your room, stare at the ceiling and listen to music that makes you feel even more lonely.

There will be days that you don't think you can handle the pressure of everything.

There will be days that you want to abandon every single thing you are doing and go do something completely different, something completely unproductive.

There might be days that you do that.

There will be days that you will wish you lived someone else's life-- a life with less trouble, work, stress, or conflict.

There will be days that you don't understand why you are where you are or where you might be going.

And that's okay. 

You are allowed to ask questions. You are allowed to feel pain without being ashamed of that fact. You are allowed to struggle.

You do not need to be perfect. You are not perfect. And that is okay.

There will be days that you feel abandoned, alone, isolated, invisible, or unheard. Maybe all of them at once. That's okay. 

God designed life to have different seasons. Solomon understood this, and wrote it down in Ecclesiastes: 

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace." -Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

What's important to remember is that while the world is constantly changing and you are constantly changing, God does not change. Malachi 3:6: “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed."

Take refuge in the fact that everything else around and inside you will change, but your Daddy won't. He is forever good, forever gracious, forever almighty. It's okay to have rough days, weeks, years. It's okay to struggle.

Call out to Him in that struggle. He will answer.

"In my distress I called upon the LORD;to my God I cried for help.
From his temple he heard my voice,
and my cry to him reached his ears.
...He sent from on high, he took me;he drew me out of many waters.
He rescued me from my strong enemy
and from those who hated me,
for they were too mighty for me.
They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
but the LORD was my support.
He brought me out into a broad place;
he rescued me, because he delighted in me." -Psalm 18:6, 16-19