My $100 Day

I want to share this valuable piece of wisdom that was shared with me by a wonderful lady that I had an appointment with. She was helping me with what should a day look like right now while navigating life with limited energy.

She said to me, “pretend your energy is converted to dollars. At the beginning of every day you have $100 to spend. Say getting up, having a shower, getting dressed, fed, hair done that it takes you $50 and it is only 9:00 in the morning. You have a lot of day left with only $50.

Or for instance you had to drive here today (1 hour), you had a 2 hour appointment with a lot of emotions, and you still have to drive home, that’s almost all of your $100. So when you get home and have to sit on your couch, read a book, take it easy, no guilt and no shame, you used your $100 and know that’s okay. Thats all you had.”

You know putting my energy into those ways of thinking was brilliant! She also told me I could add to the $100 by doing things that built energy. A nap, a 2 hour reading break, those things can put extra dollars into the bank. Then we hit the jackpot, grandchildren can definitely make me laugh and that adds mucho dollars to my bank.

It was so simple and so deep and it made me feel adequate. Adequate because of all those, I should go here, I must see that person, I’ve got to…but the truth of it is - I only have $100 to spend each day, no carry overs, and no guilt that I cannot do the “shoulds, oughts and have too’s.”

I have even lost the condemnation over myself if I get to town, go to 1 place on my list of 10 and head back to the car and say, “nope, not today,” then head home again, maybe tomorrow. Totally fine!

I had a conversation with a friend about this and as we got talking we saw this concept was valuable for more than our energy. It had a depth to it.

We talked about our walk with God. We each have a list of things we think we “need” to do for God each day. Possibly convert that list to dollars, how much is reasonable to do in a day.

How about our 'to do' list for the day, that long list we make, how much is the dollar value for each item. Are you trying to do $500 of things in a $100 day? Is that even attainable? Sounds like stress in the making.

If we started converting our time, our resources, our money into cash deposits and withdrawals I think we would start to see how over drawn many of us are! We have been running on a deficit.

Interesting to take this a step further to our Christian life. God has told us that He has given us “all we need for life and Godliness" 2 Peter 1:3. We have our $100 of new mercies from God every morning. How many times do we try to carry the $100 from today over to tomorrow? I mean, God did such a wonderful thing showing up today, I’m going to expect Him to show up the same tomorrow.

God showing up today is marvellous but He said He has new mercies, not old ones, not yesterdays, He has NEW ones, a new $100, (imagine converting your mercies and blessings into cash value) for you each morning. Do we count on it, expect it, look for Him to show up differently today than yesterday? Or do we try to fold up our $100, stick in our sock or shoe to hide it in case He does not show up? We are not sure if He will honor the $100 deal.

What did He promise? To have new mercies, new blessings for you every day. (Lamentations 3:22-23) New blessings even if the day starts bad or hard. New blessings even if you cannot feel Him. New mercies even if you got disappointed today, He is still there and you still have $$ in the bank for today. Do you believe it?

Do you hoard it, like the manna bread that fell from the sky on the Israelites in the desert. God told them to collect only enough for today, otherwise it would rot and get bugs. Yuck! But some would try, some would secretly try to store more for those what if days. It rotted and even rotted the bread for the day, wrecked the whole batch, check out Exodus 16 for more on this.

How about it, are you ready for today, to watch for Gods provision, His mercies, His $100 blessings over each day? He is and has more than you can ask or imagine (like way more than $100), He never gets tired of meeting us daily, to talking to us daily. To see us trust Him at His word and walk in a state of faith to always give Him our “yes.”

Jesus taught us to pray, asking for our daily "blessing/bread" and it would be wise to remember it is a daily prayer:

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.

Amen.

Matthew 9:6-13