IN the first chapter of Genesis we read, "God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night." In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy begins her definition of "day" thus: "The irradiance of Life; light, the spiritual idea of Truth and Love" (p. 584) . Because God is the only Life and the irradiance of this Life is day, there can be no day apart from God, good. In Science day is an unfoldment of His nature and of His innumerable attributes.
This truth, declared and affirmed, brings light and inspiration into our human experience. Every morning when we awake to a new day we have reason to join in the Psalmist's song of praise, "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it" (Ps. 118:24). How wonderful it is for one to establish in consciousness right at the outset the true meaning of day and then live up to it!
Lifting thought to a realization that day is more than a period of time breaks the mesmerism of time-thinking, takes away a sense of hurry, worry, and strain, of overwork and of accumulated responsibilities. Paul wrote to the Ephesians (2: 10), "We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." We "should walk in them"—calmly expressing the harmonious activity of restful Truth. This is something which pertains to our true selfhood, something far removed from the rushing around of a hurried, overworked mortal.
