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28
Is today really a gift?
Filed Under Life
At the age of 90, she could no longer live on her own. The time had come to give up the home she had lived in the past 7 decades. All she had built was left behind and now she was lead down the long corridor of white walls and plain rooms. Before even entering she stated - I love it. Taken back, the nurses had to ask how she could say that. Happiness is simply something you decide on, she replied.
Happiness is simply something you decide on. I have thought about that a lot, but in the grand scheme of things is today really a gift? Is that reason enough to just decide to be happy? Everyday I read the newspaper, I see stories of multiple homicides, kidnappings, and rapes. The televisions tell of one more adult going after a child. The financial markets are in ruin globally and people are losing their livelihoods. Each day is a gift? Sounds more and more like each day is a curse, when do we get the gift?
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matthew 6:34
I have read this verse time and time again - God I don’t want to worry. Another preacher would point me to Matthew 6:34 and say don’t worry. Easy enough right? I mean the guy who just lost his job and his house with a new baby has no worries for tomorrow? It is impossible to not worry - there I said it. My name is David and I am a worrier.
I decided that this verse means each day should be a happy day. All I can handle is today and today is a gift from above. It is a day when I can forgive one’s transgressions toward me. It is a day where I can reach out to a needy person. It is a day when I can befriend the heart broken and rejoice with the blessed. I can comfort the hurt and relax with the peaceful. I can spend one more day with family and enjoy another few moments with friends.
I don’t know if I will have tomorrow, but I know I have today and each day given is a day given from God. It is one more day to accomplish the plan He has for me. Am I going to worry about the tasks ahead - more than likely. Am I going to still trust my God - yep. Am I still going to find time to enjoy the little things in life and the big blessings God bestows on me - sure thing. Remember that with each hello, with each hug, with each smile, it could be the last given or the last received.
If you consider your life a bank and each day you get to deposit at closing then it is completely up to you what you put into it. You can put in the good things, the happy things, and the blessed things. Or completely opposite you can go into each situation with negativity and by the end of the day all you have done is deposit a load of bad memories. When I find I’m going through a struggle, an occasional withdrawal of the good things in life is all I need to get through those tougher moments . I have little thought of what tomorrow will bring, God has that handled and besides I can’t make a deposit until the bank opens!
Seriously, I needed that. I worry too, but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy today.