The Phenomenal Message

“Good morning, sir, how are you?” the sweet, bright, and friendly breakfast room attendant asked a guest at the hotel one morning.

“Phenomenal!” the man exclaimed.

I was sitting at my laptop computer at a table in the hotel breakfast room working on my writing when I overheard the brief conversation.

To be honest, I felt like crying. Perhaps I might have been joyful to hear such a remark. Phenomenal! But instead I was deeply convicted.

How often I wake in the morning bogged down with worry, h...