Highs and Lows

Have you seen the signs in gift shops?  “A bad day fishing is better than a good day in the office,” or some variation on that.  Maybe it’s not fishing

 but hunting or shopping or skiing.  Name your hobby.  We all have good days and bad days, and going further within our days there are moments to celebrate and moments that we would sooner forget.  That’s just how days go.

There is this activity that people do as part of wrapping up an event called, “High Point – Low Point”.  I have also heard it called, Thumbs up Thumbs down and Loved it – Hated it, but the game is the same.  For whatever event is being discussed, everyone takes a turn describing the part that they liked the best and the part that they liked the least.  For example, one person may say, “My high point was swimming at the beach and my low point was dropping my ice cream in the sand.” Then the next person might say, “My low point was getting that awful sunburn and my high point was when YOU dropped YOUR ice cream in the sand.”

Of course the point of the activity is to spark discussion and reminisce a bit, but I think that there would be value in each of us participating every day.  Think about it.  At the end of each day, whether we do this with someone or on our own or with someone, what if we took a minute to reflect on the day’s highs and lows. 

And then thanked God for them both.

It is easy to get wrapped  up in the drama of our own lives and forget that we are blessed on every level.  If you are reading this, it means that #1 you can read.  #2 You have enough free time to read a blog.  #3 You have access to the internet.  Those things put you and I in a class of wealth beyond much of the world.  It is easy to forget that the worst moments of our day can be way above the best moments of someone else's.

Watch this clip from Pastor Chris.

In all that we do we need to keep our focus on God.  We need to praise God in the good times and bad and the highs and the lows.  We need to remember that in all we do we are serving him.