You're up, and you don't feel much of anything about it yet. Not discouraged exactly. Just even.

Most people know Lamentations 3:23. Not many know what comes right before it. This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. He doesn't wake up with hope, he goes and gets it. Twenty verses earlier he says his strength has perished along with his expectation from the Lord, and nothing in the chapter takes that back. Then he deliberately calls something to mind, and hope follows the recalling, in that order. And what he reaches for isn't a promise about how it turns out. It's that the mercies are new this morning, before anything has gone right.

Anchored in Lamentations 3:21-23. Before the Doors Open is a short Sunday morning sending for the whole worship team.