I was recently glancing through some books in our office and found a travel journal I’d given my husband some years ago. On each page was a rectangle, embellished with an elegant boarder, in which were written the words ‘Highlight of the day’.

I thought for a moment. What was the highlight of my day?

During the festive season where love, joy and peace are featured, it would seem such a simple thing to identify a highlight in each day. Yet, often there are an awful lot of other, less pleasant sentiments that can bombard us during this time. We seem to so easily forget the point of Christmas – remembering the outpouring of grace and love with the birth of a Saviour. And instead of this translating into the physical exchange of gifts and sharing of love and joy with our fellow man, we can find ourselves exhausted, upset, guilty for overspending and/or overindulging and feeling nothing remotely comparable to loving or joyous.

What if we were to snapshot each day?

What would be at the centre of our thoughts, even in the midst of frantic doing? Would we remember ridiculous queues in shopping centres? The complaints of disgruntled gift recipients? Sugar-hyped, overtired children? An overinflated credit card debt?

How easy it could be to let our minds (and days) be driven by the more trying elements of life. Could this simple principle – highlighting a feature of each day – be a way of setting the tone of our world? Perhaps if we, on a daily basis, were looking for the uplifting moments of life, we could be less inclined to be sideswiped by an overwhelming negative. Granted, bad things happen, but so do good things. Everyday. What a great way to remind ourselves of those positives.

What will you write as your highlight for today?