Today was a glorious day for porch pondering and porch sitting. My yard is full of a charm of finches and a vatican of cardinals. It’s squabbles and bird songs around the feeders with Fatty and his dove friends frolicking underneath. The mosquitoes came calling today, biting me on the face. Seems too early for the little bloodsuckers. Father Sky sketched an azure blue sky, clear and cloudless, added a yellow sun beaming warmly. Got hot sitting in the swing in the sunshine. It was warmer outside than in my house. Oldest brother came over mid-morning and we sat on the porch and talked about the songbirds we’ve seen in our yards the past few days. He sat in the swing one leg up and one leg down, pushing the swing, just like daddy.

I would say today has been a beautiful day in many ways. The Bible says God made everything beautiful and we should rejoice in the days God gives us. Psalm 118:24 reads, “This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” I’m thinking what made my day beautiful — a visit from oldest brother, a phone call from my oldest son, a Hershey bar, a flock of cardinals, a phone call from my dearest friend — when in actuality God made the day wondrous by waking me up with breath to live another day. The beauty of each day is that we are made new each day. Each day is a blessing. Lamentations 3:22-23 says, “The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”

Each day is a gift from God with new opportunities to live and experience life. God gave us free will to choose how we spend our days. We should greet each day with thanksgiving and as Philippians 4:4 says, “Rejoice.” “On a good day, enjoy yourself; on a bad day, examine your conscience. God arranges for both kinds of days so that we won’t take anything for granted,” Ecclesiastes 7:14.

Life is full of storms, some we see forming, others blow in and surprise us. God can see us through the darkness of these storms and walk us back into the light. “You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess,” Deuteronomy 5:33.

We never walk alone on this earth if we give our heart to the Lord.

“Walk towards the good in life and one day you will arrive.” — Unknown