“If you try to seize the day, the day will eventually break you. Seize the corner of his garment and don’t let go until he blesses you. He will reshape the day” (Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life).

I know for those of you who have seen the movie Dead Poets Society that we’re all supposed to go out and seize the day. Even if I knew how, I don’t think I could. It would be too overwhelming.

But I know for certain that I can seize the corner of His garment. I can be like that woman with the bleeding issue who clung to Jesus as if He were her only hope. I can take the day to Jesus and He will bless it instead of making my plans and asking Him to endorse what I’ve already decided.

I know what it’s like to try to seize the day and live it in my own strength. Typically, it hasn’t gone well for me. There’s always something that goes wrong to remind me that I’m not the one in charge.

But when I let God have His way and simply trust and follow, I do a lot better. Things may still go wrong, but it won’t wreck me when I am free to take it as a lesson of surrender and a reminder to look up occasionally for what God is trying to say to me.

Seize the hem, not the day.