The day the Lord has made
As I sat in my living room thinking about how well today went, I felt I should
be inspired to write something because there is a blessing that abides, abounds,
and abodes with me that gives me an outlook and disposition I rarely can find
words to explain.
Let’s look at any day in question, for in my case, every day for a long
time has been a blessing, regardless of what happens in it, I have a
triumphalist feeling that whatever a day brings will not dampen my desire to
consider success and accomplishment.
Someone might say, the day has been difficult, probably, they even
hate a particular time of day that it becomes a kind of confession that fulfils
what inadvertently becomes prophetic. Whenever I wake up, I bless the Lord
and would with great expectation address it as this is the day that the Lord
hath made, I will rejoice and be glad in it. [Bible Hub: Psalm 118:24 (KJV)]
How can the day not turn out right if you have been given a day made by
the God of beauty, wonder, and miracles?
The morning is a recreation
There are nights when sleep seems to desert me, I struggle to find
the rest I need to be fresh for the day ahead. The alarm clock stirs me up as dawn
breaks and I slap on the snooze button for the respite of another 10 minutes in
which little is achieved compared to if you could get a snooze time of 30
minutes and consequently a power nap.
Then the strains of the hymn, “Morning has broken” seep into your
consciousness as with a bounding leap out of bed, you want to celebrate the day
like the first of the best, and you begin to own the beauty, the warmth, the
bliss, and the sweet communion that it presents. “Mine is the sunlight! Mine
is the morning, born of the one light, Eden saw play!” The hymn continues
to define the day. [Hymnary.org: Morning has broken, Like the
first morning]
The Boomtown
Rats possibly unaware of the joy of the day or even the opportunity the
week presents would sing in refrain, “Tell me why I don’t like Mondays.” I’ll
tell you why you do not like Mondays; you do not see every morning
as God’s recreation of a new day. Yesterday is gone forever, you are given a
new start, each new day.
Then, the inspiration for the song itself was from a 16-year-old girl
who thought causing the tragedy of a mass shooting at an elementary school
would liven up the day. [Wikipedia: I don’t like
Mondays]
One can only wonder how a life so bereft of love and the appreciation of
goodness would think that senselessly taking innocent lives can be anything to contemplate.
She has been in prison since 1979 and her next parole hearing in 2025 is
unlikely to give her any reason to like or dislike Mondays or any other day for
that matter. How you rise for the day can quite easily define the rest of your
life. [Wikipedia: Cleveland
Elementary School shooting (San Diego)]
The cherished American toleration of daily tragedies
Just imagine, we are 45 years after that school shooting spree, and we
still have these tragedies happening with such regularity in the United States
of America like an incurable madness. To give this some perspective, it appears
the first recorded school shooting was in 1764.
You might be forgiven for thinking it is a cherished American tradition,
the way these tragedies are tolerated for the sake of the right to bear arms. There
have been three school shootings in September 2024, alone. [Wikipedia: List
of school shootings in the United States (2000–present), List
of school shootings in the United States (before 2000)]
Arise, Shine
To conclude on the thinking that helped in writing this blog, I had an
inward witness within that took me to this verse in Scripture. “Arise,
shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.”
[Bible Hub: Isaiah 60:1
(NKJV)]
There is a glow that comes with the blessing of a new day, you can be the light
of it, the sunshine that makes everyone happy, the beauty that gives it
meaning, and the memory that makes you full of gratitude. That is why each day
is wonderful because as the glory of the Lord rises upon me, I rise to shine
and give light to the joy of a new day.
