When It's Good
An Ordinary Good Day
For when you feel: good day, unexpected blessing, life is sweet right now, just happy
This is the day which the Lord hath made: let us be glad and rejoice therein.
Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration.
The MinuteHomily
Nothing dramatic happened today. The coffee tasted right, the kids laughed at breakfast, the sun did that thing through the trees, and you noticed. Do not let it pass unattributed. James traces every good gift back above, which means an ordinary good Tuesday has a return address. The psalmist goes further. "This is the day which the LORD hath made," this specific one, handmade, and rejoicing in it is not naivety about the world's pain but plain obedience to the verse. The discipline of joy is tracing gifts back to the Giver while they are still warm in your hands. So interrupt the ordinary, right in the middle of it, and say it out loud: thank You. This one was good.
By the MinuteHomily editors
A prayer for this moment
Father of lights, thank You for today: the small, unearned, ordinary good of it. I trace it back to You and rejoice on purpose. Amen.
“Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Sun.”
St. Francis of Assisi
Hymns for this moment
“Morning Has Broken” · trad. Gaelic
“For the Beauty of the Earth” · Folliott Pierpoint
One small step
Interrupt today once to say thanks out loud at the exact moment something's good.
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