Good EVERY Day

‘Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say—“Father, save me from this hour”? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour.

Jesus said to them, ‘The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. If you walk in the darkness, you do not know where you are going. While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light.’

John 12:27, 35-36

For much of my twenties, I lived in a Chicago high-rise with a late-night doorman. If you asked him how he was doing, his reply was always the same, even if it was 2am on a weeknight in February. He’d say, “I’m good EVERY day.” I always admired — and envied — this degree of unwavering positivity. Even as a glass-half-full person, for me, paying attention to the light in the world has always taken some work, some deliberate choice. Meanwhile, the darkness is easy to find with almost no work at all.

Even as Jesus tells a crowd around him to stay with the light — with Him — while they can, he acknowledges that the darkness is very real, and that light can feel fleeting. What a gift that is: to have a God who understands the overwhelming power of darkness for humanity. To have a God who makes a deliberate choice not only to walk in the light, but to BE the light.

-Marissa Flaxbart

Dear Lord…

Help us to know where we are going. When we strive to be Christlike, remind us that we strive to be a light in humanity’s darkness. Amen.