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SATURDAY, January 8 (Harriet Bedell)
Psalm 118. On this day the Lord has acted; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
What a motivating, get-up-and-get-going statement this is. Any morning that I can awaken with this verse in my heart and on my lips has a good chance of being great and productive. Any day that I can wake up without picking up a load of past failures and fears, angers and sorrows, is a day I can live in the joy and power of my Christian faith. Yesterday is gone. This is the day!
On those mornings when I awaken with the sense of joyful possibilities, I know those possibilities are apt to reach fruition before nightfall. This is the day that the Lord has made and has acted, and I will rejoice and be glad in it, and I will use its hours in ways that please God and serve my brothers and sisters.
Yesterday and tomorrow are out of our reach and in God’s hands. Let us thank God for today and make the most of it. Let us allow God’s grace to make the most of us. (1991)
We can find all that is necessary in the present moment….Our sole satisfaction must be to live in the present moment as if there were nothing to look for beyond it.
—Jean Pierre de Caussade
PRAY for the Diocese of Lebombo (Southern Africa)
Ps 117, 118 * 112, 113; Isaiah 59:15-21; Revelation 2:8-17; John 4:46-54
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