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When you’re exhausted from too many can-do, call-your-own-shots days, it’s easy to forget what glad feels like.
“[T]he Lord . . . will guide and counsel me. . . . Therefore my heart is glad. . . .” Psalm 16:7, 9
Lord, as you guide and counsel me today, I will live once again in glad relief.
If you allowed yourself five tranquil minutes every waking hour, you would lose about eighty minutes a day -- or would you?
Tranquil: free from agitation
“He restores and refreshes and repairs my soul.” Psalm 23:3
If it’s up to you to keep the people you love on the right path, they are your hard and heavy work. If it’s not, you can rest.
“The Lord is _____’s shepherd.” From Psalm 23:1
“She did not try to set others right; she only listened to and loved and understood her fellow-creatures.” Eliza Keary
What if, all day today, you were looking for chances to give?
“To give a close, sympathetic attention to every human being we touch; to try to get some sense of how he feels, what he is, what he needs; to make in some degree his interest our own –- that disposition and habit would deliver any one of us from isolation or emptiness.” George S. Merriam
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Acts 20:35
Imagine not carrying your failures and faults (or anyone else’s) around with you today.
“Erase the inner marks [that] our failures make, just as we scrub our hearts of others’ faults.” Neil Douglas-Klotz
“Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” Matthew 6:12
Complaining (silently or out loud) feeds discontent. Saying small thank-yous instead starves it.
“[C]onsider it your duty to fight against discontent, beginning with some small thing which is the most obvious to you.” Priscilla Maurice
“Sing to the Lord a new song (today).” Psalm 96:1 (parenthetical added)
