“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.”  Bill Meyer

How’s your day going so far?  What keeping it from being a great day?

This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.  (Psa. 118: 24; NLT)

How many times in the average day do you hear the phrase, “Have a good day?”  Often used as a substitute for or supplement to good-bye, it has almost become trite because just like the standard greeting “How are you,” most people are just mouthing the words with no real sincerity or interest behind them.  If you’re like me, you probably use those phrases as much as everybody else.  It’s become a habit for many of us because when we say those things we don’t have to stop and think.

As I was reflecting on what to write about today, I remembered Monday’s DG wherein we talked about the Law of Comparison or the Law of Relativity and how anything that happens is neither good nor bad until we decide what to compare it to.  Therefore, we can choose to compare it to something worse and it is therefore good; or we can choose to compare it to something better and thereby declare it to be bad.

Well, if that is the case, and I truly believe that it is, then the already trite and meaningless “Have a good day” makes even less sense because it suggests that we are helpless victims to the circumstances that happen to come our way, and the well-wisher is simply hoping that there will be more good events than bad events so that we can feel like we’ve had a good day. 

If those circumstances or events can be interpreted by us to be to be good (or bad), then that takes the victim out of it completely.  Now it’s fully our responsibility about how those circumstances or events are viewed and we can choose to have either a good day or a bad day.  (Why anyone would choose to have a bad day is beyond my comprehension, but I’m sure there are some who would make that choice for any number of reasons.)

So, given that we have been given the power to make the choice, wouldn’t it make much more sense to end a conversation with “Make it a good day” or better still, “Make it a great day.”  Now it still might not be offered in a sincere manner, but nevertheless it carries the strong implication that the hearer has a choice in the matter.  Maybe if we were reminded enough times, it might just begin sink in that we do have the power to choose to have a good day.

I don’t know about you, but I am going to choose life instead of choosing death.  Sounds like a lot more fun.

Prayer Power
Lord, remind us to choose life and to interpret things that happen to us in a positive fashion.  Help us find the good in everything so that we can sincerely celebrate life on a moment by moment basis.

Link of the Day
How To Have A Good Day Every Day

Blessings on you as you choose to have an awesome weekend!