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The Good Day God Has Given

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Why not wake with joy to greet 
The good day God has given?
Like Mockingbirds and Cardinals 
Each with their songs from Heaven

The Red winged blackbird in the field
The swallow on her nest
Sing out their special melodies 
As God has chosen best

And once their hours have passed and they
Towards home begin their flight
They find the place to rest their feet
And trust God’s care all night!


This is the day that the LORD has made;
    let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 ESV

The Good Day God Has Given
by Peter Caligiuri
Copyright 2023 all rights reserved


God’s Home

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The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.” 
Lamentations 3:22-24 ESV

When my father passed away, and I sadly began putting his financial affairs in order, I was surprised to discover that he had already put my name on the title to his home. Without my ever knowing it, dad left to me the most valuable thing that he owned. Now my ad was an amazing man, but what he did gives us just a little glimpse of what today’s verse means when it says, “The Lord is my portion.” Because when Jesus gave His life on the cross, God put our name on the title to His home.

When the prophet Jeremiah wrote today’s passage, many of God’s people had rejected Him and as a result were being led into exile as captives. But even at their lowest point, God was already planning for blessings and the return of their grandchildren. In the same way, when we have failed God, we can know that in spite of our sins, Jesus has a plan to lead us back to Him. When we repent and ask His forgiveness, God is faithful to forgive us and to restore to us a priceless inheritance beyond anything we could ever imagine. Then one day we will discover that because of His great and amazing faithfulness, God has become our eternal inheritance and our portion forever!

Home Sweet Home!

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I sincerely thank God for the privilege and ability of being able to complete such a long road trip as the one we returned from last night. Over the last 3 weeks, Nancy and I travelled through 17 states (not counting our home state of Florida). These are just a few random photos from our 5,500-mile jaunt. While away, we visited all 7 of our grandchildren, both our sons and their wives as well as many close friends. We were also able to stay in the beautiful small town of West Plains, Missouri, which is close to the village where we were married 50 years ago. It was really neat going to the old church, which is now Immanuel Southern Baptist of Pomona Missouri, and worship with those lovely people. While we sang the old hymns, I noticed that they are still using the piano on which Nancy played on the worship team before we were married! Now that we are home, we have to mow the lawn, go shopping, pick up the mail, wash the car and reconnect with our local friends and neighbors. But as I was resting and rejoicing in being, “Home Seet Home” I remembered that while He was here on this planet, that Jesus rarely had any such privilege. In fact, while responding to an eager listener who said he wanted to follow Him, Jesus said, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” Matthew 8:20 NKJV

Then it hit me that after I had unpacked all my thing and settled in, that I would still not really be home, because as a Christian our only true home is with Jesus. As the Apostle Paul once said, “So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 5:6 NKJV. But God does have a home prepared for each of us who by faith have followed Jesus and given our lives to Him. No matter where you call home today, whether things are going well or terrible, whether we are loved and accepted or rejected and unloved, Jesus has a home for us in Himself and we can have great and unmeasurable peace as we unpack our spiritual bags, come home to Him and find rest in Him alone! Some on Home! Jesus has left the lights on for us!