The Gift of the Day
"This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." – Psalm 118:24
I’m not much of a football fan. I don’t know the goalie from the first baseman and I rarely understand how they score when they get the ball into the net. You get the idea.
But I have loved checking into various Lions games this season and appreciating the happiness that these victories have delivered for so many.
My favorite moment came after the Lions won the game with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on January 21.
Aidan Hutchinson – honestly a player whose name was completely unknown to me until this year – stood apart from all of his teammates after that victory and just seemed to absorb all of the joy of the moment. Crazy delirium was swirling all around him, and Hutchinson just stopped. He seemed to be just taking deep breaths and soaking up all of the happiness around him.
There’s a lesson in that for all of us. Life is crazy, and we can be overwhelmed by it on almost any day. Or we can choose to pause. We can choose to give ourselves a break. We can choose to step back and smell the proverbial roses. We can choose.
I have no idea whether Aidan Hutchinson is a man of faith, but, in that moment, I could see that he was a man who chose to be grateful for an experience that was enveloping him and that he knew was probably fleeting.
Prayer: Lord, please help us to be grateful for the many miracles, big and small, in our lives. Help us to pause and appreciate the gift of every day, whether it brings a big victory or merely the routine of everyday life. Amen.
Joan Richardson
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