Daily Faith

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My Daily Musings-September 10th, 2026

“If your only plan today is to make it through today, that still counts. Survival can be a faithful step.”

This quote really resonated with me because of my chronic illness symptoms. On my hardest days, all I can do is make it through that day. So, I survive until the next day. I really like that it says, “Survival can be a faithful step.” I never thought of just making it through the day as an act of faith. But I guess it is as long as I don’t doubt and lose my faith. Even on my hardest days when I get discouraged, as long as I don’t give up, I’m still showing faith. Faith doesn’t mean we never feel discouraged. Sometimes faith is simply continuing to take the next step when we’re discouraged.

Life is hard and some days we may even doubt if we can make it through the day. It’s okay to get discouraged as long as we don’t let those feelings overwhelm us or stick around for too long. I definitely have days when I get discouraged and I don’t know if I can make it through the day anymore. But I wake up the next day and there’s hope. Even if I don’t feel better physically the next day, I pray that my spirit will feel better and have more hope.

I realize that it’s very hard for some people who struggle with severe depression and anxiety to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But we just need to remember that we don’t walk through this life alone. We are meant to be there for each other. We learn from each other’s hard experiences. Our Heavenly Father is always beside us. He can help us through every day, even if we are just surviving until the next day. He loves us and wants us to reach out to Him, especially on our hardest days.

Have you ever had a season when simply making it through the day felt like an act of faith? What helps you find hope when you’re having a particularly difficult day?

My Daily Musings-September 1st, 2026

“Hope is the bridge between today and tomorrow.”

This is a simple yet profound quote. When I am having a hard day with my health, sometimes the only thing I can do is make it through that day. When I go to sleep after a hard day, I know that tomorrow could be better. Even if tomorrow isn’t any easier than the previous day was, I can still have hope for the future.

I feel like each new day brings me hope. Even when the burdens of my health struggles feel heavy every day, I can make it through each day because there is always hope for tomorrow.

That’s why I really like this bridge analogy. When we think of a bridge, it connects one piece of land to another, and most of the time there is water underneath the bridge. The bridge helps us get over the water to a new place. So if today is one side of the bridge, tomorrow is the other side, then the bridge would be the hope that carries us into the future. We can think of it as our problems today and then going to bed and not knowing what the future holds tomorrow, but we cross the bridge of hope to find out what is going to happen next in our lives.

We could think about Jesus as being the bridge that connects today to tomorrow. He is the hope that we need to make it through our day-to-day struggles. Because of that hope in Jesus, we can feel confident in crossing the bridge to tomorrow and not be afraid of what is beyond the bridge.

What does the “bridge of hope” look like in your life? What helps you keep moving forward when you don’t know what tomorrow will bring?