A Blank Legal Pad

A blank legal pad. This is what I love about Saturdays.

While most of my "to do" lists during the week are done on a calendar / list matrix (I actually created my own paper calendar this year that fits how I do calendar / to do list triage), on Saturdays I begin with a blank legal pad.

And that is actually kind of inviting.

Whatever happened yesterday and this past week is done and now in God's hands, not for me to obsess over except to give it to God in prayer and ask for forgiveness when necessary.

Today is a new day.

The resurrection of our Lord Jesus means a lot of things. One of them is simply this: each new day is really a new day, a day infused with the light of Christ, a day for rising and being born again, a day for believing that whatever has happened in the past is now done.

And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb...

Christ rises before the sun dawns and begins his work before I am even up.

A new day. A new creation. A blank legal pad.

What I should write at the top is this: Christ is risen! So love well, Matt, for it is not you who live, but Christ who lives in you!