Posted by: bonniemc on: May 13, 2009
Today is the first day of the rest of your life!
I know you have either read of or heard this comment before but have you really thought about what it means? It means that beginning today you can begin to be who you have imagined you can be. No one can hold you to your past hiccups or your old way of looking at life. You can begin today to love like you’ve always wanted to love, give until you are satisfied that you have given enough and to laugh until your belly hurts. You no longer have to believe the naysayers who told you that things can’t get any better or that dreams are a waste of time. You are the “boss” of yourself and with the “Superboss”, that is to say God, in the control tower, you can’t do anything but win.
So often we allow ourselves to compromise our present and future happiness simply because we are “stuck” in the past. The funny thing about the past is you can’t do anything to change it. It is done, finished, dead; and to use a much-quoted modern expression, it is time to “get over it”.
Life has a way of challenging us, but it is in the challenges that we begin to understand and become who we were created to be. Challenges are not designed to break us but to strengthen us. Those of you who are athletically-inclined know that in order to become fit, you must put your body through stress. It does not feel good, as a matter of fact, it is downright painful. But, if you want to get that size 16 body into a size 6 you quickly learn to soak it, wrap it up and massage it until it does what you want it to do.
Each of us are a work or art; molded and inspired by the Master of all that is wonderful and good. And with that creation we were given tools that come in the form of family, friends, experiences and time; to put our own indelible mark on the space appointed to us.
You can do that by each day, putting one foot in front of the other, never looking back, but learning the lessons that today teaches you.
Begin living right now by accepting what is yours.
Deigratia,
Bonnie W. McDaniel – Life that Works – copyright May 13, 2009
May 13, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Bonnie,
This is so true. It is a strenuous process to improve. You will go through stress and there will be much sacrifice, but with God in the Control Tower all is possible. Very nice. Thanks for this.