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This day will be filled with you-first-or-me-first choices. Every free you-first is a shining trade: self-absorption for joy.
Self-absorption: preoccupation with one’s own emotions, interests or situation
Father, please fill and satisfy me with Your steadfast love today so that I won’t try to fill and satisfy myself. Only then I will sing for joy. From Psalm 90:14
When you do something wrong, you can either stay stuck in the guilt and shame and self-focus of it, or you can say one hearty I’m-sorry and get back in the race.
“[F]orgetting what lies behind and stretching and straining forward (as in a race) toward what lies ahead, I press on, running swiftly toward the goal. . . .” Philippians 3:13-14 (parenthetical added)
Father, thank You for forgiving me for yesterday so that I can run swiftly today, clean and light of heart. From 1 John 1:9
You don’t really love somebody as long as you’re collecting hurtful things that she has said or done. The healthiest and hardest remedy is to throw them all away every day instead.
“Love . . . keeps no record of wrongs.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-5
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. . . . The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.” C. S. Lewis
If you thought you could be freer from the mire of self-centeredness tomorrow than you are today, would it put a little skip in your step?
“The freedom of self-forgetfulness. . . .” Tim Keller
“I am Yours; free me.” Psalm 119:94
What if every person you see today (whether you like him or not) has a deep and wondrous secret (whether he knows it or not)?
“Seeing . . . Jesus . . . in the distressing disguise of the poor.” Mother Teresa
“Christ is . . . in all.” Colossians 3:11
When grievous things happen, we need.
“My soul weeps with grief and sorrow. Strengthen me. . . .” Psalm 119:28
Father, into Your strong and good hands I commit my heavy heart and my tangled emotions. From Psalm 31:5
