My Amazing Day

“Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!” Psalm 46:10

“Thank you God for my amazing amazing amazing amazing day,” I prayed at the end of one warm and sunny March sabbath Sunday. “Thank you God that I got to spend it with you. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen,” I finished.

Immediately I was struck with this. For decades, my days revolved around me, what I wanted, what I didn’t get, with whom I got to be, with whom I couldn’t be, my dr...