Today is the Day

This morning when I awoke I thought of the poem - Just for Today. This is a version of the same poem. I don't know why I thought of this today but maybe I needed it and/or maybe someone in blogland needed to read this.

Today I will live it up

I will live it up today by praying when I awake

I will live it up today by doing a good deed for someone and not getting found out

I will live it up by smiling at the people I meet, knowing that those who do not return the smile need it most

I will live it up today by being the best me there is beliveing that God's will is for me to be me

I will live it up today by excersing my body, mind and spirit, aware that excercise is the key to health

I will live it up today by taking responsibility for just that is mine to be responsible for

I will live it up today by enjoying the gift of today and the miracle of the day, even when I do not understand what the gifts and miracles are

I will live it up today knowing that God is with me always and that I am never alone

I will live it up today because God gave me the power of choice, and I choose to live it up.

by Tuchy Carl Palmieri

Hope everyone has a blessed day.

Words for Wednesday

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. Galileo

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends. John Ruskin

(I needed these words this morning-hope you enjoy them)

Stormy Weather

The thunderstorms are rolling in this morning as predicted. We are expecting a day of severe weather as a warm front comes in from the Gulf and cool weather makes its way across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Just hoping no tornadoes. And hoping the gardens and flowers aren't washed away.

When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Putting in the Seed

Slave to a springtime passion for the earth. How love burns through the putting in the seed on through the watching for that early birth when, just as the soil tarnishes with weed, the sturdy seedling with arched body comes shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.
by Robert Frost

A Tree

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. bySaint Basil

Rainy Monday

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. By Langston Hughes

A Moment...

The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's heart in garden
Than anywhere else on earth.

By Dorothy Frances Gurney