“Remember now one lovely day, for each of you has had at least one that was a shining light in a world of darkness. A day in which the sun shone on your world and you felt part of everything. Every tree and every flower welcomed you. Every drop of water seemed to refresh your soul, every breeze to carry you to heaven. Every smile seemed meant for you, and your feet hardly seemed to touch the soft ground on which you walked. This is what awaits you as you join with what you see. This awaits you as you place no judgment on the world, and in so doing join with everything and extend your holiness across a world of grief, causing it to become a world of joy.” (C:5:32)
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to wish such a day often, even everyday? Is such a blessing possible? Probable?
I think that it is, but I do think that it is rare in our world. I have read of people who never met a person they didn’t like, people who feel happy every day. But I would be the first to tell you that this is not I. Oh, I hope for better days, and I do have many good days—but constant and unremitting joy has not been my lot in life.
I doubt that it has been yours either. But we can move ever close to such a blessed state by doing certain things daily.
It is well to start the day right, as A Course in Miracles points out. And, of course, Jesus also tells us in ACIM that the day can be begun again if it starts out less than the best. How to start the day right?
We need a time of quietness. And not all of us can squeeze this in first thing in the morning. It means getting up earlier, before our family rouses It means that we give a part of each day to God, right off the bat. And we are the better for it.
I do not always do this, but when I have, the rewards have been great. I go out on our sun/screen porch, where the early sounds of the morning, and my reading and prayer, grant me peace. Having this peace first thing in the morning is the best way to ensure that the day will unfold well. If the day turns frantic, we can then go within, in memory, for that moment when everything seemed right with the world—when God was in His heaven, and we were visiting Him, so to speak.
If you can’t carve out the first part of the day to spend with God, spend time with Him as soon as possible as the day unfolds. We will never regret these moments of quiet. We will flourish in a world that seems at time to have gone mad. As it has.
Return in memory to happy times. Recall a pristine day, as the passage for today encourages us. And remember that prayer is God’s way to talk to us. Prayer is sometimes silence, for God is heard in silence.
The world today does not live by these rules. And they are my rules, my interpretation, based on A Course in Miracles and A Course of Love. When you have time, develop your own rules.
You will live far happier days. And you will the God Whom you may have forgotten somewhere along the way.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 
For me, joy is more than a feeling of happiness and it doesn’t come from me at all. Joy is the product of my faith in Jesus founded upon His gift of Eternal life and the future hope of a better world to come. That joy doesn’t depend on outward circumstance and it serves as a state of inner refuge from the pain, suffering, and sorrow in the world. I am sad at times but the new attitude that faith in Jesus has given me, is joy and though I may not feel happy about my circumstance, my joy in Jesus isn’t diminished. I may step away from joy or be distracted by it but it remains as the mental state of the mind of Christ that is ever available to me. It truly, is inexpressible and that is why I can write it about it without exhausting the subject.:0)
I agree that starting the day with God makes all the difference in the day. And, if I need to remember a happy day, a memory of our visit with you and your husband would be a really happy memory.
Thank you, my dear college roommate, for saying this. I feel the same way about you and your husband.
Love, Celia