RE-JOY

This is the day the Lord has made,

I will rejoice and be glad in it. ~ Psalm 118:24

Every morning on the way to dropping off the girls before school, we pray.  Today, Savanah prayed that we might have a Thrillifric Thursday (that’s thrilling and terrific put together for those not sure).  Well to be honest today to this point has not been thrilling or terrific for me.  In fact, trying to right this has been hard, very hard.

Why?

Because how do you rejoice and be glad when your day has been less than the best, to say the least?  I mean it would be so much easier to tell you to rejoice and be glad on a day when everything is going well.  I guess though talking about rejoicing and being glad when I don’t feel like it is probably the better time to do it.

What does it mean to rejoice?  The dictionary says rejoice means to show great joy.  When I see the word rejoice I see the prefix “re” along with the word “joy.”  Re means again and again.  Joy means to have great pleasure.

So I see rejoice as a way of saying have pleasure (or joy) in today again and again and again and…you get the idea.  It’s not about having pleasure in what is happening in your day but more about having pleasure that you actually HAVE today in the first place.

I think if we looked more at our day as an opportunity to be grateful we have it, it might change how we view what happens in it.  Let’s look at choosing to rejoice and be glad in our day as a way of choosing to hit the reset button on the day.  Choose to RE-JOY:  have pleasure in having today again and again through the rest of your day.

The good news?  Today is not over.  So whether it ever gets to be thrillifric or not we can still choose to…you guessed it…rejoice and be glad for having today in the first place.