Having a Bad Day?

"Our circumstances are not an accurate reflection of God's goodness. Whether life is good or bad, God's goodness, rooted in His character is the same."
 -Helen Grace Lescheid

I have started to write a kind-of essay on how I tend to label my days as "good" and "bad," dismissing that God ordains each element that touches my life; but I can't completely wrap my head around God's work to write coherently about my thoughts. 

I'm a duty and responsibility, "get-'er-done" (to use my Missouri venacular) kind of personality; I see life that way - do the hard things, consider what is right, and try not to complain about it.  I don't enjoy all the things I have to do, but I do them because it is what I'm supposed to do.  That isn't to say I don't have joy in my life - there are always moments each day where even the ordinary things like watching Miriam look at her books or my older kids play nicely with each other or when my husband comes home from work that make me smile.  There are times of ease when things happen to go my way or we actually get some down time or an unexpected break.  The rest is just necessary.  Good or bad. 

However, it doesn't matter if my lot in life is hard or easy - made worse when I compare myself to others who have more or less -- who have it easier or harder.  What touches ME and my life is all in God's perfect plan.  My past and my present are neither deserved or earned or lucky- they are what I need because Someone wiser than me is in control.  If the situations were bad, they have a purpose; if the situations are good, it is a blessing.  Either way, God loves me no more or no less than those who have harder  or easier circumstances.  All He does works together for good according to His purpose ... Romans 8:28. 

"That is good for the saints which does their souls good. Every providence tends to the spiritual good of those that love God; in breaking them off from sin, bringing them nearer to God, weaning them from the world, and fitting them for heaven."
~Matthew Henry