This is the day that the Lord hath made. Or all God’s children got Issues.
The bible. Do you read it often? Ever?
I try to every day. Hence the photo below.
Spiral notebooks. I must have a million in the attic. They are my Talking-to-God journals.
If you are reading this and don’t happen to believe in God, that’s fine. You might want to keep reading to gain a bit of insight into a modern, neurotic feminine Christian mind.
Notice I didn’t say the modern, neurotic feminine Christian mind. Every modern. Every neurotic. Every female. Every Christian. Is different.
Notice the Day 4.
I made it my goal on April 22 to have a quiet moment with the Lord and my journal every day for a year. Let’s just say I’ve started over a few times. Day 4 is a long way from Day 365 but maybe since I’ve made this public, that will spur me on. I can at least make it 30 days. I’ve done that for NaBloPoMo twice.
Here’s the point of this post.
Every day I write that scripture at the top of whatever it is I end up expressing to God that morning.
“This is the day that the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24
You know what word I have the most trouble with?
REJOICE.
Does it mean a little smile? Does it mean butterflies-in-the-tummy giddy? Does it mean a happy place that only a couple of glasses of wine seem to get me these days?
Pooh.
I was stumped. But I don’t feel all that rejoice-ful.
Leaving church on Sunday, I bumped into a friend I hadn’t seen for a while. She asked how I was doing.
Children issues I said.
She told me her issues.
Issues. Seems all God’s children got issues.
Financial. Mother. Step-father. Husband. Wife. Son. Daughter issues.
Here another beautiful day has dawned and we are told to rejoice.
Felt it was high time I looked up rejoice.
So I pulled out my falling apart Strong’s.
And looked up the word rejoice as it is used in Psalm 118:24.
It gave me a number then I had to look in the Hebrew section because the verse is from the Old Testament.
Here is what it said.
“To spin round (under the influence of any violent emotion).”
To be honest reading that spinning around part, the first thing that came to mind is You Spin Me Right Round from the ’80s.
Amazing how I had that same hair my senior year at SMU. Loved that hair.
Then the second thing I thought about was how David danced uninhibitedly before the Lord as they brought the Ark back to Jerusalem.
Maybe King David had that ’80s hair too?
I digress.
How do we rejoice each day? Spin around rejoice. (and not from issues-induced nausea.) When these darn ISSUES saturate our minds. When they are the first thing we think of in the morning and the last thing at night.
Well, this is what theologian Jamie has come up with.
Spin.
With social media, we’ve all become our own press agents. Our own spin doctors.
I try in my solitude to put a positive spin on my issues. And those that I can’t I say my new favorite phrase.
“It is — what it is.”
And now I’m off to download Dead or Alive on my iPod.
Thoughts anyone?
