Finding God in the Small Mercies

When we're waiting for all the pain to pass at once, we stop noticing the small mercies God scatters along the way. Today, train a new way of seeing. Healing rarely comes as one great miracle overnight; it usually arrives in small things: a night when you slept better, a moment when you laughed without feeling guilty, a warm cup of coffee, an unexpected hug, sunlight on your skin. These are mercies "new every morning" — small proofs that God is caring for you even on the hard days. Noticing them isn't pretending everything is fine; it's choosing to stop staring only at what's missing and starting to see what God is already giving. The psalmist discovered this in the depths of sorrow: what keeps us from being consumed is God's daily mercy. Today, before you go to sleep, find just one. It was there.