Finding The Day:
When I was a kid, my mom would often wake me up with this verse: “This is the day which the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it.”

But it didn’t always feel like the day of the Lord to me. I never loved early mornings which school required, I was an artist, and even then, stayed up late at night. It took me many years, to realize that we actually had to find and faith our way into “the day of the Lord.” To actively position ourselves towards the Day of The Lord.

It’s certainly there, but takes a little work on our part to find it, and live in and from it daily. Yet, it is still my practice to find “that Day, each day, in my days.”

Finding the Lord’s Day within our days is a spiritual practice. Everyday. This is the Day that the Lord has made, i will first find it, and enter into it, and then find myself rejoicing in it! It is a spiritual discipline to find the Lord’s Day everyday.

To pray our way into The Day, to turn towards it, makes ours meaningful! And the Day is always in our midst, but sometimes we must discipline ourselves to find its already dawning.

Spirituality is not passive, and we can choose to accept our own version of each day, but there is another Day just behind the curtain, which helps our’s shine. Try to find the backdrop which puts our own days in spiritual relief, that’s the practice. So that our daily lives become an active part of our spiritualities.

I think we wake up near the Day, or even in the midst of The Day, but have a part in actively placing ourselves in an orientation to enter into that Day experientially or existentially. When we do, our own hours and activities are contextualized in a long stream of meaningful days.

I’m still thankful for my mom telling me The Day was indeed there; but have had to learn how to find it each day.

Hope that you are finding The Day, within your days, today friends! And then, rejoicing in it!