Brand New Day

By Mary Elizabeth Jamison


I open my eyes to a brand new day, a day that has never been before nor will ever be again. What's in this day that is different than any other day that I have lived in previously.

I wake up in the same bed, in the same house, on the same street, in the same city. I bathe in the same tub and brush my teeth in the same sink. What's so different about this day? I put on a selection from the same wardrobe and saunter into the same kitchen to make coffee in the same coffee pot. I watch the same television and babysit the same children. I eat food from the same refridgerator prepared on the same stove. I say good morning to the same daughter and grandchildren. Oh, if I could just figure it out. Everything just seems the same as it was yesterday, what's different? I drive the same car and comb my hair the same with the same comb.

As I muse and consider what the difference is, a still small voice inside of me tells me that this day is different because it was made brand new by God and he allowed me to live in it. There are brand new blades of grass that has never sprung forth before, new dead fallen leaves that have never fell before; new babies born; new thoughts, new ideas; I have never breathed the same breath of air that I'm breathing now; I have never lived in this moment before; I have never woke up in this bed, in this house, on this street, in this city on this day before because this day was never here before. I have never ate food from my refrigerator on this day before. Everything my eyes behold and all of my actions; and all my emotions that I experience are brand new on this day because this day has never been before.

With all that in mind, I am completely grateful to God for the gift of living in this day and consider all things brand new in this brand day, thus giving God thanks.

Don't complain about this day that you are yet alive in, but rather say a prayer of thanksgiving. Please visit the Life_Reflections Group

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