Win the Day: 7 Daily Habits to Help You Stress Less & Accomplish More by Mark Batterson

Author:Mark Batterson [Batterson, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780593192771
Google: -73iDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0593192761
Publisher: Multnomah
Published: 2020-12-29T05:00:00+00:00

CELEBRATE THE BIG STUFF

God set a precedent with each day of creation. Each day was as different from the next as, well, night and day. Let me have a little fun and liken each day to one of my favorite memories. Day one is like standing on Main Street at Disney World and watching the Electrical Parade go by. Day two is the splash zone at SeaWorld. Day three is the Boerner Botanical Gardens in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Day four is the Adler Planetarium in downtown Chicago. Day five is swimming with sea lions in the Galápagos Islands. Day six? This one is tough. God created humankind in His own image. The closest I can come is the moment each of our three children took their first breath.

Each creation day was its own one-of-a-kind, never-to-be-repeated masterpiece! Isn’t that the way it’s supposed to be? The first chapter of Genesis reveals God’s original intent. Sure, we all have terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days.11 Of course, God is hovering over the chaos now just like He was then. He’s quite capable of making something beautiful out of even the bad days.

I know that sounds very theological, very philosophical. I promise you, we’ll get painfully practical. But until you recognize each day for what it is—the first day and last day of your life—it’s all for naught. The best way to steward every moment and make each day into a masterpiece is to recognize each day as miraculous.

Teddy Roosevelt had a nighttime ritual that is worth emulating. It was like an exclamation mark at the end of his ideal day. He and his naturalist friend, William Beebe, had a habit of going outside and looking into the star-filled sky. After using the Great Square of Pegasus to locate the Andromeda Galaxy, Roosevelt would recite the following: “That is the Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It is 750,000 light-years away. It consists of one hundred billion suns, each larger than our sun.” He would pause, then grin and say, “Now I think we are small enough! Let’s go to bed.”12

The creation story is a microcosm of so many things. God said, “Let there be light,”13 and those words are still creating galaxies at the edge of the universe. If God can do that with just those words, what are we worried about? We already trust Him for the big things like keeping the planets in orbit. All we need to do now is trust Him for the little things, which is everything else by comparison!

Speaking of little things, how many species of ants do you think there are? If you’ve seen one ant, you’ve seen them all. Right? Not quite! Entomologists have identified at least twelve thousand species! That borders on creative overkill, doesn’t it? My favorite species is the Sahara desert ant, which is able to move at a speed of 2.8 feet per second—108 times its body length.

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