How to Have the Best Day Ever

“Gigi,” Lauren said, purple Popsicle juice dripping from her chin. “This is the best day ever.” 

 Her simple declaration made me smile. The best day ever. 

Thinking back over the events of her day, I found nothing that should have prompted such a statement. No great expenditure of money. No lavish displays of entertainment. No exotic travel or unusual events. Just sharing simple pleasures with someone she loved. 

I think King David had a heart like Lauren. 

“Praise is awaiting you, O God, in Zion,” he penned in Psalm 65. Then he listed what made his heart happy and full: 

God hears our prayers (v. 2). 

He atoned for our sins (v. 3). 

He chose us to have a relationship with him (v. 4). 

He allows us unlimited access to his presence (v. 4). 

He satisfies us with his goodness (v. 4). 

He answers when we call (v. 5) 

His ways are always right (v. 5). 

He is our confidence (v. 5). 

He is strong and powerful (v. 6). 

He provides our needs (v. 9-11). 

“You crown the year with Your goodness,” David declared, “and Your paths drip with abundance” (v. 11). 

David’s praise reminds me of a story I heard about an elderly man. Although he had little to boast of materially, he’d experienced the joy of walking with God all the days of his life. As he prepared to eat his meager breakfast of coarse bread and cool water, he paused and bowed his head. He prayed with a heart of gratitude, “Oh Lord, you have given me bread, and water, and Jesus, too?” 


Or, to borrow Lauren’s words, “Fun Fridays with Gigi and Popsicles, too?” 

Whether or not there’s a Popsicle in your freezer, today is a good day. If you know Christ as our Savior, you have much to be thankful for. It’s fitting, then, to take a moment and thank God for God’s goodness around us. 

I've discovered that praising and thanking God doesn’t change a thing about our circumstances, but it does make our hearts so full of gratitude they will overflow. This encourages not only us, but those around us. 

It may even prompt us to declare, like Lauren did, “This is the best day ever.” 

 


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