“This is the Lord’s Day-the Day that the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it.” This verse, has always haunted me, in the best of ways! What Day is it that we find ourselves rejoicing in, especially on hard days? Where is that Day within our days, in which we find ourselves rejoicing? And how do we enter into it daily?

 Daniel’s prayer also teaches us to confess into thanks into praise every day. That’s clearly one way into The Day! Start with confession, then enter into thanks, and perforce into praise.

And, St John reminds us, if we think we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar. For all have sinned and fallen short, daily. So what is this practice of finding the Day of the Lord, daily?

I’m working on the practice of finding the Day within my days. “In the architecture of time, it’s easy to lose sight of the temple.” as one Rabbi put it. We lose sight of where His Presence is, and start floundering around in mere circumstance. St Paul teaches us that the key to spiritual contentment is to meet God through whatever circumstance you find yourself in. Then all experiences become potentially meaningful and transformational–whether in prison or a palace. Or as Augustine said: “Love God and do what you will.”

I think often of the discipline of finding “The Lord’s Day” within my own. That space where we are meant to meet Him and therefore rejoice. Making all our passing circumstances become tents of meaning and transformation. I try to pray my way into That Day, daily, so that my activities and circumstances become tabernacles of meeting God. That seems like one of the keys to living meaningfully, and allowing all our cirumstances to be potential places or spaces of being transformed or growing—whether our jobs, cooking, walking dogs, picking up kids from school, reading, conversation—everything is a medium through which to meet God, to find The Day of the Lord.

It is somehow our daily practice to find That Day! Let’s interpret our days through that place called His Day! And do so daily. Thinking about this today! How to live today in The Day!