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If you spend today looking for small ways to do people good (no matter who deserves what), chances are you'll be healthier and happier by bedtime.
"[D]o good (even to your enemies) . . . , and your reward will be great. . . ." Luke 6:35 (parenthetical added)
Father, teach me Your delight in doing good.
Yesterday, I watched a father holding his small child close, whispering and delighting and soothing softly, and my small heart was homesick.
“[A]lmost all our modern philosophies have been devised to convince us that the good of man is to be found on this earth, . . . [but] we remain conscious of a desire which no natural happiness will satisfy.” C. S. Lewis
“I am a Father . . . and I will comfort and console. . . .” Jeremiah 31:9, 13
The closer you are to somebody, the more you need healing words like thank-you and I’m-sorry.
“Let your conversation always be gracious. . . .” Colossians 4:6
Father, thank You for the gift of words. May I use them well today.
Imagine enjoying other people’s good accomplishments and looks and character and circumstances without wishing they were yours instead.
“He hath a daily beauty in his life/That makes me ugly.” William Shakespeare
“[L]ove one another fervently and earnestly . . . putting aside . . . all envies. . . .” 1 Peter 1:22, 2:1
Only God is strong and solid enough to be everything you need. That’s why you have to be so careful never to substitute he for He.
“My hope is in Him. He only is my rock and . . . my refuge. . . .” Psalm 62:5-7
Father, be everything to me today so that my brother may breathe freely in my presence.
When somebody really lets you down, you can either focus on poor-you (who deserves so much more), or you can pray as if you loved her.
“Be gracious to [her], O God. . . . With abundant compassion, blot out [her] transgressions.” Psalm 51:1
“Pride is spiritual cancer. It eats up the very possibility of love or contentment. . . .” C. S. Lewis
