If their eyes weren’t attached to their heads, I’m pretty certain that they would have rolled right onto the floor and across the room. I had just shared with my children that this was the day that they would be learning . . .  how to scrub toilets! Their excitement at the prospect was evident in the eye rolls and groans that they did very little to conceal. Was I excited about teaching them this? To be honest, no. But, with empty days stretching before us, what better time to teach my kids some valuable life skills like scrubbing toilets? And what a better time to pull my family close and just enjoy spending time together?

In Psalm 118, we read:

“This is the day that the LORD has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”

To rejoice is to take great delight in something. To rejoice is to make the most of each day God gives us. I can’t control the fact that we are homebound at the moment. However, I can control how I choose to see the day before me and how I will use my time. Will I choose to give into my frustration, or will I choose to see this day as a gift God has given me to spend some time with my kids, to teach them new things, and to have some fun together as a family?

Every day, we have a choice. We can choose to give in to our feelings of irritation or fear, or we can choose to rejoice in the day the LORD has given us. What will your choice be today? For me, I think I’ll play a board game with my kids followed by teaching them how to work manure into the soil of our garden beds. Hopefully no one loses an eye.