Yesterday was a rather tough day. Everything that could possibly go wrong actually went wrong. My first meeting of the day overran by more than an hour, and the whole day went downhill from there.

I missed an important appointment, lost an important phone number, forgot an important birthday, my battery died at the wrong time, and I missed several important phone calls, I lost my keys… in fact, by the time I flung myself into the sofa in the evening, I was beginning to wonder why God would allow such terrible things to happen to me, when I had such good intentions with everything I had wanted to achieve during the day.

But just as I started to question God and complain about my circumstances, I remembered a story I once read in a hospital magazine. I hadn't paid much attention to it at the time, but, like all the tools God gives you in your journey through life, I tucked it away in my mind, saving it for a day when I would need it. Yesterday was that day. You will understand why when you hear the story.

Once, there was a man. He had a terrible day when everything that could possibly go wrong actually went wrong. Feeling peeved, he took his complaints to God.

"God, can i ask you  a question? Promise you wont get mad...."

God said with a smile,  "Ok, I promise."

So the man asked, "God, why did you let so much bad stuff happen to me today?"

" What do you mean, my son?"

The man warmed up to his theme. "Well, first, you made me wake up late, then my car took forever to start. At lunch they made my sandwich wrong and I had to wait for another one. On, the way home, my phone went dead, just as I picked up an important call. And on top of it all, when I got home - I just wanted to play some soothing music on my sound system, but, it wouldn't work! Nothing went right today! Why did you do that?

God stroked His beard and crinkled His nose. From nowhere, a little notebook appeared in His hands and He flipped through the pages until He arrived at the right entry.

"Ok, well let me see here… the Angel of Death was at your bed this morning & I had to send one of my Angels to battle him for your life. I thought I'd let you sleep through that. I didn't let your car start because there was a drunk driver on your route that would have hit you if you were on the road at that time. The first person who made your sandwich today was sick & I didn't want you to catch what they have, I knew you couldn't afford to miss even one more day of work.  Your phone went dead because the person who was calling you was going to tell lies about what you said on that call. I made sure you didn't even talk to her, so you would be covered.

Oh, and that sound system had an electrical fault that was going to throw out all the power in your house tonight. I didn't think you wanted to spend the evening  in the dark. Especially not after the kind of day you'd had."

The man was ashamed. "I'm so sorry, God," he mumbled quietly.

God gave the man a friendly pat on the back. "Dude. Don't be sorry, just learn to trust me in all things, the good as well as the bad.

The man smiled sheepishly and said, "I will trust you. And God… I just want to say thank you for everything today."

My People, His ways are not our ways. We need to remember that, and learn to get down on our knees and thank the Lord for every bad day we have ever had, for God knows they could have been worse. I don't need to say more than that, do I?

My name is Kojo Yankson, and God's plan for my day is always better than mine.

 GOOD MORNING, GHANAFO!