Serve the Lord with gladness

In the 21st century, mottos often seem to be only used as vestiges of tradition or as tools of corporate marketing.

Choosing and retaining a motto, however, can be extraordinarily useful for a person’s life, most especially when the motto comes from Scripture AND is truly a guiding principle for that person’s life.

Whenever I have thought of a motto, I have always thought of this phrase from today’s Responsorial (Psalm 100):

Servite Domino in laetitia

Serve the Lord with gladness.

I am not always perfect in living this motto (orate pro me), but the more I remember it and the better I live it, the happier I am.

What should your motto be?