When J. Frederic Voros Jr. and his wife, Vicki Voros, were married in 1976, they received as a wedding present a hand-stitched sampler with the words “This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24).
Decades later, these words inspired Voros to write the words and music to the hymn “This Day Is a Good Day, Lord,” which is now in the new global hymnbook of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“I think the hymn invites us to see what the poet Robinson Jeffers called ‘the extravagant kindness’ of God, to marvel at the miracle of creation, to occasionally rest from doing and just be,” Voros told the Church News.
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