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Today's
quotation:
I have always been delighted at the prospect of
a new
day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps
a bit of magic waiting
somewhere behind the morning.
J.B. Priestley
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Today's
Meditation:
Sometimes I
don't see the day as a wonderful set of opportunities set
before me in the morning when I wake up. And I do
regret this fact, because the truth of the matter is that
I know that each day is a blessing, and that each day is
full of blessings. I want to be delighted when I
wake up-- I want to look forward to the day, no matter what
I may be doing, what I may have planned. I love
J.B.'s attitude and I know that it would be in my best
interests to emulate it. Somehow, though, I fall
short.
That
doesn't mean that I'll stop trying, for I know that much
of what the day brings to me depends upon what I bring to
the day. Life isn't a one-way street, after all.
Much of the responsibility for how my life turns out lies with me and the ways that I approach my
life-- and each day
is a microcosm of that life, each day will turn out to a
great extent in ways that are determined by how I approach
the day.
I
want to be delighted at the prospect of the new day so
that I can give all that delight to the day-- which will
help me to make the most of it and help to make the day
turn out in delightful ways. I want to look forward
to the day unfolding, to what the day will bring me as I
make my way through it. I want to see the world anew
and my life anew, and I want to take part in making each
day into something special for me and for the other people
in my life.
A new
world today? Of course it is. Everything from
the past is right there where it should be-- in the past--
so the present is ours to make of it what we
will. And our best chance to make our present day
into something special is to bring a special attitude into
it, to create the day through our attitudes, to look for
those little bits of magic that are there for all of us,
if only we have an attitude that allows us to make our
lives special.
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