March 2026

Growing up, my mother used to refer to Tuesdays as “Poor Little Tuesday.” She did that
because Monday was the first day of the week, Wednesday was hump day, Thursday
was the day before Friday, and Friday was Friday. But Tuesday was just “Poor Little
Tuesday:” nothing exciting about Tuesday. As I grew older and started playing football,
Tuesday became known as “Bloody Tuesday.” Tuesdays were the days during the
season where we went full pads, full contact, full scrimmage. Tuesdays were the
hardest practices of the week, hence “Bloody Tuesday.”

Usually, perspective and reality frame our understanding of events. As a child, my
perspective was that there was very little excitement associated with Tuesdays. As a
teenager, my reality was that Tuesdays were hard. I would like to propose one more
metric for understanding events in our lives: faith. As I look back over my life and
consider all the times when I thought a situation had very little excitement and or when I
was going through a very difficult experience, I can see now that God was there with me
all along working, moving, and shaping my character and soul through the mundane
and the monumental.

Seeing God’s sovereign, providential hand and sweet, paternal heart for me is an
insight that has taken many years for me to gain, understand, and appreciate. Seeing
God’s tender care for me and tenacious control of redemptive history are truths that
comfort and calm me in the most stressful situations of life. As a grown man I appreciate
the “Poor Little Tuesdays” of life far more than I did as a child. Likewise, as a grown
man I do not go to pieces as quickly or as often over the “Bloody Tuesdays” of life as I
did as a younger person. Life has a way of teachings us, tricking us, or tackling us. The
difference between these three results is the faith, or lack thereof, that we have in Christ
and in His sovereign, providential, affection for His children. Knowing that God the
Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit have been unfolding the pactum salutis
perfectly throughout my entire life brings a sense of stability that cannot be eclipsed or
replicated by anything in this universe.

As you face the monotony of “Poor Little Tuesday” or the monsters of “Bloody Tuesday”
never forget that Almighty God is with you, for you, and in you. He will never leave you
nor forsake you. Read these two verses of Scripture and let them be the anchor of your
soul and the bedrock of your life. Joshua 1:9   Haven’t I commanded you: be strong and
courageous? Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord your God is with you
wherever you go.” Romans 8:28   We know that all things work together for the good of
those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose. Thank you Jesus
for redeeming our perspective and reality.
Pastor Clint Miller