For Today: February 9th

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make a list! Work out a plan! How easy; soon the plan becomes the deed, the thought becomes the action and life is a list.  Where is the fun, the plunge, the risk, the laughter?  The rubbing elbows with another, the jostling with a crowed, the hop, skip and running free?  Is my life all too safe?  Predictable?  Why not turn my will and my life completely over to Higher Power---no holding back-----and see what happens.  Hasn’t God already given me far more than I could ever imagine for myself?  Just for today, I will live a little.

For Today:  I do not think “tomorrow,” or “later” or “another time.”  I think now.  Do it now, say it now, commit myself now.  What can be done “someday,” I can do today----just for the fun of it.

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This reading reminds me of The Bucket List.  If I wait till 'later' to accomplish my bucket list, I'll  probably never do any of it!  Procrastination and fear of living will keep me rooted in my disease, and moving backwards instead of forward.

When the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood become too serious & overbearing, I tend to lose my childlike appreciation and awe for life in general.  Bogging myself down with too much stress prevents me from being happy, joyous and free.

It's ok to allow myself to laugh, especially at myself.  I don't have to take such a hard-line approach to everything and view life as one crisis after another. 

For today, I will take the time to laugh, to be childlike, to have some fun. My son has taken up going to the rifle range & has invited me to go along with him on Saturday.  Back when he was a child, I'd call that a "Mom-To-Dude Day".  This weekend, I will let my hair down and join my son in a well needed Mom-To-Dude Day. We both deserve it.