Great Songs: "Beautiful Day" by U2

This is another of my favorites – just a wonderful song by one of the greatest bands ever to grace popular music. “Beautiful Day” was released on U2′s 2000 album “All That You Can’t Leave Behind.” Hard to believe it’s ten years old.

What makes this song great? For me, it’s a positive, uplifting anthem to the beauty of the world we live in. We hear so many depressing stories about the state of the world today that it’s refreshing to hear about good things all around us! All we have to do is open our eyes to see the beauty and diversity of planet Earth and the people who live here. In addition, the song has a lot of energy and a simple but great guitar riff.

Life is what we make of it. We have the choice to make each day good or bad. Will you go through this day or week and see it as beautiful, or will you see it as terrible? We can’t control what happens to us or around us, but we can control what happens within us.

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. (Genesis 1.31)

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. (Philippians 4.8)