Tuesday 9 February 2016

For Today - Do it Now

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I found myself procrastinating on something that I didn't want to do.  I knew it would be a bit unpleasant but do-able and I simply did not want to.  So I lolled around in bed, not getting to it, thinking about it, making it worse in mind than it was in real life.  I wasted a good 20-25 minutes.  Finally, I pulled myself together, raised up enough gumption and just did it.  And you know what?  It wasn't that bad.  It wasn't all fun, rainbows and unicorns.  But it wasn't un-doable.  And it was done.

The part of today's reading -- other than the wonderful Emerson quote -- that really resonates is this:
Hasn't God already given me far more than I could ever imagine for myself?  Just for today, I will live a little.  What can be done "someday," I can do today - just for the fun of it!
It's true.  I never imagined myself doing many of the things I have been blessed to experience.  Travelling abroad.  A graduate degree, despite the odds.  A professional career.  My relationship with my sister's children.  My own home. 

Today's prescription is to do something today that I usually put off to 'someday" -- just for fun.  Ok.  Challenge accepted.  :-)

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