I went outside a while ago. I saw green trees and green grass and gray gravel. I know I did because I know that stuff is out there. But I don’t recall any of it registering in my conscious mind.

God’s mercy and goodness is the same:

“He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD” (Psalm 33:5).

Everywhere and all the time, the Lord’s goodness is “there.”

But too often I’m too busy and preoccupied about other things . . . and His goodness just doesn’t register with me.

That’s my loss to my own poverty.

Lord, open my eyes and my heart that I may see and rejoice in and be encouraged by Your abundant, earth-filling goodness.