Today is a good day. I feel that on some level every day is a good day. I think it's funny how we categorize days based on the first few minutes. We decide if our day will be pleasant before we brush our teeth. I feel that millions of dollars should be spent studying how to build the most pleasant alarm clock and in getting that alarm clock installed in every home.
Malcolm Gladwell's Blink explores the initial reaction we have to things compared to our long term understanding. People almost always pick Pepsi over Coke in a single-sip blind taste test. People almost always pick Coke over Pepsi in a whole-can blind taste test. Our initial reaction to Pepsi is much more favorable, but it fades as we finish the can.
We had a near perfect Sunday once in Toccoa. We planned this sermon series about the Upside Down Kingdom, the idea that Jesus came to flip the whole world on its head. One of the ideas we had was to shake up a service (just the contemporary, of course) by starting with the sermon and ending with the greeting. We figured a change would at least get people to notice. The whole Sunday went off without a hitch. It was one of the best sermons I'd ever heard at the early morning service. The following Tuesday at our meeting the pastor explained that he is usually groggy at the beginning of a service and needs to music to wake him up ... so the previous week he had started his i-pod when he woke up so he would be ready. It made all the difference in the world when he took an active step to improve his mood first thing in the morning.
We all looked at each other around the table, wondering who would be the willing one to recommend he try the same thing next Sunday ... and every Sunday after that. But, wouldn't that make sense. What if every pastor in the country got up on the right side of the bed, on the right foot every Sunday morning?
What if we stopped allowing our first few negative minutes to color our day negative? Just a thought.
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