Hope 4 days promising to be difficult and challenge to yield to the 1 who holds us in His hand http://ref.ly/Ps118.24

When I wake to a spectacular sunrise, birds singing and air warming quickly it is fairly easy to say, ‘This is the day!…’ When I wake bleary-eyed, knowing the day will be full of expected and unanticipated troubles, missing the hour that mysteriously went AWOL this past weekend, I am not as quickly inclined to say, ‘This is the day!’

The beauty of the day to come is not found in its appearance. Sunrises, birds, warm air, are all just ‘skin deep.’ The real joy in any day is discovering the intricacies of intention: God created this day.

James instructed the church to ‘count it all joy when you meet trials of various kinds,’ so that we prove by our lives that the Maker of every day is effectively molding us to be ‘perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.’

Let us remember to encourage each other continually for this day is ‘Hand Made.’