Bondad en los malos dias

The Spanish “Bondad en los malos dias” in English, can mean. “Goodness in bad days.”

I am pretty sure that once in a while you may experience bad days, days when you do not feel right and it shows in your actions, gestures and even in your face. And all of a sudden certain people close to you ask; “How are you? What happened? Or what’s wrong? And you might say depending on what’s bothering you, “I have a headache”, “I feel sick”, “I am hungry” or “I had a misunderstanding with someone”. The person asking that question about your condition is showing you a gesture of concern. But those who ask that question should also realize that the answers it produces headache, sick, hungry or a misunderstanding with someone does not automatically make the day bad.

If you are going to think deeper, was there ever a day in the entire history of mankind when everything is good and perfect? When no one had headaches, when no one was sick, or when no one was hungry. Perhaps, there has never been a moment in human history that there was a good and perfect day.

Many of us may think that the perfect days were the “good old days”, the days when we were younger, or like the days of the early church. Our early church was not as good as it may seem, there was disagreement between Peter and Paul, conflict between Paul and his companion Barnabas, but because of these disagreements or imperfect days, did that make our early church bad? No, because after their disagreement, after they parted ways, the result was the establishment of more churches.

 I believe we will always have good days and bad days. As a certain poem says; “Into each life some rain must fall.” The most important thing is not whether the sun is shining or not. The most important thing is not whether you are healthy or sick. The most important thing is that whether, in good days or bad days, in sickness or in health, in life or in death, it is the Lord who journeys with us.