"This isn't one of my days." How often have you said this to yourself? Or perhaps a friend has remarked, "This isn't your day!" How many times have you gotten up on the wrong side of the bed? Can't you remember days when everything has gone wrong?

Something can be done about such situations. Through the study and application of Christian Science we can destroy the false mental states that lead us into depression and mistakes. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health, "Christian Science commands man to master the propensities,—to hold hatred in abeyance with kindness, to conquer lust with chastity, revenge with charity, and to overcome deceit with honesty." ^{Science and Health, p. 405;} We do not need to go along with the suggestion that on some days it is natural for everything to go wrong. We can master mistakes with a consciousness alive to the oneness of Mind, nurtured by the allness of Love, and based on the divine Principle and its idea, man. This selfhood is not the mortal, physical representative of false conceptions; it is man made in the image and likeness of God.

The disciples of Christ Jesus must have felt that it wasn't their day when they fished all night but could catch no fish. The net came up empty. Jesus, as he watched from the shore, clearly recognized what was wrong. He said, "Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find." ^{John 21:6;} This they did, filling the net with one hundred and fifty-three fish. Remember, it was the same boat, the same net, the same water, yet now they had an abundant catch.

We can change our thinking and succeed in our present endeavors. We do not have to admit this isn't our day. Rather should we realize, "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." ^{Ps. 118:24.} If it is the Lord's day, nothing but good can come from it. God made all—including our real identity, reflecting Him—and it was very good. We should acknowledge this. Let the day be the Lord's, not the limited, finite day of a mortal on his own.

The thought expressed by "This just isn't your day" does not come from God, immortal Mind, the only source of true intelligence. It is false mortal mind's way of excusing failure. The consciousness in tune with the divine would replace it with "This is the Lord's day"—a day in which only good can be unfolded. It is a day full of the spiritual understanding of the true nature of God and man. It is replete with the success of immortal goodness, not the failure of mortal actions.

This, then, is the day that needs to be established. A day full of selfless acts, good works, and a true sense of justice.

Just what is the right idea of selflessness in contrast to the false, mortal thought of self—that self which thinks it owns "my day"? Basic to selflessness is kindness—a kindness that unseats false, self thoughts with a compassion for others. Kindness brings happiness that cannot exist in selfishness but must be shared. Surely the goodness here is in sharing the day with others, not limiting it to "my day."

How does justice fit into such a day? Is it legitimate to expect a day filled with mistakes and attribute these mistakes to chance? God, the perfect Father of a well-ordered universe, can never know chance, and therefore never permits chance to play a part in our activities. His law is unchanging, exact, not subject to caprice. Definitely we should take the action out of the material "my day" into the spiritual justice of the Lord's day. This higher sense of justice would destroy the false belief of inaccuracies or chance.

Selfishness, anger, frustration, supposed lack of ability—such thoughts all contribute to the downfall of one's thinking and hence to the downfall of daily activities. Each has to be corrected in turn and replaced with a thought from God's unlimited allness. Selfishness is naturally replaced with unselfishness, anger with humility, frustration with justice and love, and lack of ability with the abundant activity of Life itself.

I remember a day when I was playing a set of doubles at tennis. Nothing went right. Time after time the ball would go out of bounds, and my partner would remark, "This just isn't your day." Soon the set was lost, and I sat down to await another turn. This gave me an opportunity to examine my thinking, to turn away from the material, physical inconsistencies of mortal thought to the true, spiritual facts of being. Soon I was playing again. After a few plays the remark was made again, "This just isn't your day." This time I had the answer ready. "Of course not," I said to myself. "This is the Lord's day." With this silent acknowledgment came a flood of assurances of the true qualities of thought ever abounding in God's day—thoughts of God's goodness, Love's selflessness, Truth's accuracy. Soon the shots were dropping in place. No more was heard of "This isn't your day." The players were the same. The partners were the same. Nothing physically had changed. Only my thinking had been completely reversed.

We do not need to go along with mortal mind's prognostication that this isn't our day. We can reverse it with the truth of being, and that reversal takes place in our consciousness, where we find the kingdom of heaven. Thus we govern our thinking, master our propensities, and thereby control our actions. Then from the proper standpoint we can agree that this isn't our day. It is the day "the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it."