Have a Nice Day

Doesn’t it help when you are going away for the day on a trip or a picnic or some such thing to have your mother call out of the door as you're leaving and say: "Have a nice day!"? It is so easy for someone back home to make it very unpleasant for you, instead, if they give you a frown or a scolding on the way out.

How nice it is, then, to be responsible for someone's having a nice day. Did you ever think of it that way? The best place to start giving a nice day is to yourself. How you wake up in the morning and how you try to look forward to your day will make you either miserable or happy. Do you count up all the unpleasant things that lie in your path and then want to cover up your head and try to go back to sleep and forget about it?

On the other hand, you can wake up to the thought: "What wonderful things are going to happen today?" Maybe nothing will happen, actually, but if you spend the day expecting something to happen it will make things very pleasant for you and everyone around you. If you just keep on expecting good it is bound to come sometime. But you'll have a lot of fun waiting for it.

A good way to start your day is with Psalm 118:24: "This is the day which the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it." Change the "we" to "I" if you want to. God won't care. But that isn't all. Next, you set yourself to making those words come true. Your misery—or happiness—is in your making. But whatever you do—have a nice day!

This is a wonderful day, O Lord, and I mean to enjoy it and help others to enjoy it.