What You Almost Missed
James 1:17 — "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights."
Most of us move through the day at a pace that makes it hard to notice much of anything. We get to the end of it and couldn't tell you what was good about it, what small thing landed softly, what moment deserved more than the half-second we gave it.
James writes that every good gift comes from God. Every one. That's a pretty wide category. It includes the obvious ones and the ones you almost walked past.
Try this. Once a day, slow down long enough to look back over the last twenty-four hours and name what was good. Small things count. Ordinary things count. God was present in more of your day than you probably noticed, and the practice of looking back is how that starts to sink in.
Most of us move through the day at a pace that makes it hard to notice much of anything. We get to the end of it and couldn't tell you what was good about it, what small thing landed softly, what moment deserved more than the half-second we gave it.
James writes that every good gift comes from God. Every one. That's a pretty wide category. It includes the obvious ones and the ones you almost walked past.
Try this. Once a day, slow down long enough to look back over the last twenty-four hours and name what was good. Small things count. Ordinary things count. God was present in more of your day than you probably noticed, and the practice of looking back is how that starts to sink in.
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