Donning the Law of the Day

Bright on purpose — light carried into the room before the room has earned it.

1. 01Noticeably happy and in good spirits
2. 02Causing happiness in others by being present
3. 03Bright, pleasant, warming to be near
4. 04Willing and glad — not grudging
5. 05Full of good cheer; heartening
6. 06Optimistic in bearing, not only in opinion
7. 07Lively and light in spirit
8. 08Given freely and gladly, as a cheerful giver
9. 09Sunny in temperament
10. 10Hopeful in a way that can be seen from outside

Cheerful as a description of her, not a decision she makes each morning.

1. 01Happy and optimistic by nature
2. 02Bright and pleasant in a way that lifts a place
3. 03Cheerful enough that others borrow it
4. 04Warm and enlivening in manner
5. 05Sunny in a settled, dependable way
6. 06Genial — good company without effort
7. 07Encouraging by presence
8. 08Of a room or house: pleasant and light-filled
9. 09Habitually good-spirited
10. 10Bright in a way that has become character

Made for company — a true companion, equal and beside, not above or beneath.

1. 01Of or like a companion; suited to companionship
2. 02Of a relationship: between equals, side by side
3. 03Sharing bread — from com panis, with bread
4. 04Fit to walk with someone the whole way
5. 05Warmly present rather than merely nearby
6. 06Loyal in the ordinary hours, not only the crisis
7. 07Companionable — easy and good to be with
8. 08A friend to herself as well as to others
9. 09Keeping company with God and with the King
10. 10The perfected form of cheerful: cheer that stays

To move the thing forward with expectation — to lean on it as already coming.

1. 01To regard something as certain to happen
2. 02To look forward to and prepare for
3. 03To await with confidence rather than anxiety
4. 04To require, as one expects what is due
5. 05To reckon on a thing, and act on the reckoning
6. 06To carry something the way a woman expecting carries life
7. 07To hold a standard and hold to it
8. 08To anticipate and move accordingly
9. 09To count on — and let the counting move your feet
10. 10To press the thing forward by believing it forward

To breathe spirit into a thing until the room can feel it.

1. 01To fill someone with eager interest
2. 02To speak with strong feeling about a thing
3. 03To inspire — from en theos, in God, God within
4. 04To make others eager to move
5. 05To put spirit into a plan
6. 06To communicate zeal without pressure
7. 07To rouse and gladden at once
8. 08To make a thing contagious
9. 09To animate a team, a table, a household
10. 10To carry conviction so warmly that it spreads

To give life. What was enthused is brought fully alive — that is the Queen, and that is the sword.

1. 01To give life or spirit to something
2. 02To make lively, bright or interesting
3. 03To animate what had gone flat
4. 04To revive — to bring back what was fading
5. 05To quicken, in the old sense of making alive
6. 06To brighten a room, a plan, a person
7. 07To put motion into what had stalled
8. 08To cheer a thing into life
9. 09To invigorate with your own life
10. 10To be the reason something lives

The White Sword — hopefulness that acts, and conquers because it is a law.

1. 01Hopefulness and confidence about what is coming
2. 02The disposition to expect the best outcome
3. 03The belief that good will overcome
4. 04Confidence that the situation can be made favourable
5. 05A working resource, not a feeling
6. 06The bright blade she carries into every room
7. 07The doctrine that this world tends toward good
8. 08Cheer converted into forward force
9. 09Assurance that the outcome is worth pursuing
10. 10The law of positivity, held in the hand

Not a mood but an office — the woman who holds the bright blade for everyone else.

1. 01One who habitually expects the best outcome
2. 02A person who looks on the favourable side
3. 03One who believes a situation can be made good
4. 04The hopeful one in a room that has run out of hope
5. 05A woman whose expectation others can lean on
6. 06One who acts as though the good end is certain
7. 07A bearer of confidence in a house
8. 08The opposite of a pessimist: not naive, but decided
9. 09One who holds the White Sword on behalf of others
10. 10A builder who refuses a dark forecast

Best possible conditions, made on purpose and made plural — she manufactures the ideal, she stops hoping for it.

1. 01The most favourable conditions for growth
2. 02Best possible points, plural — many of them
3. 03The ideal amount, degree or arrangement
4. 04Conditions engineered so a thing can flourish
5. 05The peak of what a situation can be
6. 06Best outcomes, created rather than awaited
7. 07The most favourable set-up for everyone in the room
8. 08Optimum climates for people, work and household
9. 09The increase of the day: the best made normal
10. 10Excellence arranged, and arranged again