Most of us have a morning routine. Getting up early early, coffee is at the top of my list. We all have coffee or tea peculiarities... mine is dropping ice cubes in it to cool it off in order to drink it right away.

So, it goes without saying that in the fuzziness of early morning, from time to time coffee gets splashed, as it did this morning. And honestly, sometimes I get a little testy and talk to the coffee. "Really, this is how we start our day?"

Now, some of you are already nodding because you get the play of the enemy in that conversation. But until this morning, for me it was a just a foggy, cynical start to some days. I sometimes hear Joyce Meyer, as if she were on my shoulder say, "OK, you have a machine that makes your coffee in just a few seconds, you require ice cubes, which are made and shaped in your freezer, and you have attitude?"

I took my misbehaving coffee and sat down to open up The Message and read Paul's words to the Thessalonians:

May God our Father himself and our Master Jesus clear the road to you! And may the Master pour on the love as it fills your lives and splashes over on everyone around you, just as it does from us to you. 1 Thessalonians 3:12

Let's let the love of Jesus fill our lives day by day, so that it splashes over on everyone around you... what a prayer for this day and every day. Cheers!