The cup is half full or half empty.  Smiling through the pain, or letting everyone experience discomfort with you. Optimism or pessimism.  However you label it, there is something that happens when someone responds to the dailiness of life with a smile, kindness, calmness and even joy.  What is it that allows some people to approach life with a certain gladness and ability to land a stumble like a beautifully executed triple round off back handspring (I’m not even sure there is such a thing, but it sounded good)?  What makes people like Bob Goff (one of my personal happiness heroes) so full of mach 10 exuberant excitement when his car is totaled and other people who can only recognize the calories in Chocolate Lava Cake instead of enjoying the simple pleasure of taste that God gave us to enjoy food?

I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s all in the Power Suit.  It’s not the suit itself, but the Maker of the suit… Him who designed, created and carefully knit together every last piece of thread, every button, every pocket and even the lining of the suit.  God as Creator has shown His love for us in big and small ways… every day, every moment we have at our finger tips proof that He is a loving, kind, gentle, giving and forgiving Savior.  From the skin that covers our bodies to protect us from disease and wounds, to the taste buds that allow us to enjoy food with each other in community, to the beauty of a storm and the blueness of the sky, God gives us so many reasons to trust Him and praise Him.

The Power Suit is not couture that we buy off the rack, it is custom made for each one of us and as we walk in it, it has the power to turn a rainy day into a day of focused energy rather than scattered errands running to and fro.  It has the power to build trust in His power, instead of the unreliability of this world.  It has the power to turn ashes into beauty and doom into joy and tears into laughter.    It does not come from our own understanding or our own “inner-strength”, but only in the knowing and trusting of the Maker of the suit.  It is not confidence in ourselves or even the confidence in the suit… it is the confidence in the Maker of the suit. As one who has been fitted by the Master Tailor to walk through these days, I can lean into my days, my decisions, my sorrows and my longings with the confidence of knowing that this Maker, this Tailor, this awesome God will clothe me, provide for me, protect me and go before me.  He has my best in mind and will always fill in the gaps.  I love that I get to wear this kind of Power Suit~ and can laugh at the days to come because even though they may be unsure, I know the days have already been measured by the Maker.

1 Chronicles 16:7-36