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.

Thoughts

"How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!"

by Ralph Waldo Emerson



'Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same"

by Flavia Weedn



This is how I feel about my blogging friends. Sometimes you make me want to dance. And the wisdom I learn from all my friends about gardening and other stuff is insurmountable. I am encouraged by each one of you. Some posts do leave footprints on our hearts.

Thanks to my blogging friends who make this fun. I look forward to this everyday.



Have a nice day everyone.

Rest

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. by John Lubbock

To me this sounds like something I need to do real soon.

Words to Live By

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln.

I felt that this quote by Mr Lincoln spoke volumes then and so it is today. We are living in difficult times - times like we have never seen before and hope to never see again. If we do not learn from this all will be for naught. We must rise up and do everything possible to improve our own lives and purpose. Mr. Lincoln says we must rise to the occasion and so it is we rise.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Our lives can be likened to the tight bud as change is sometimes difficult. Change comes when the old doesn't work anymore. Sometimes it is painful but worth the risk. As the bud turns into a blossom so it is with us. It is newness.

May each one of you embrace the change and roll with it and as the bud opens up so do we.

Have a nice day to all of my blogger friends. Becca

Blooming Colors

Everything is blooming most recklessly: if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking in the heart of the night.
By Rainer Maria Rilke