Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Today is the first day of a new month. Today's quote on my "sisters" calender from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Finish every day and be done with it.... Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.
How many of us start the day realizing that this day is "too dear... to waste a moment on yesterdays"? All too often we are burdened or "cumbered with our old nonsense." We think about what we did or did not do yesterday. How many of us start the day with a "high spirit"? Do we often forget that a spirit can soar in height, even though we (or our loved ones) are suffering physically or emotionally? How often have we heard a person that is suffering say, "You lifted my spirits"? Yes, sometimes it is our spiritual self that gets us going in the morning and keeps us going throughout the day.
Today is a new day, "begin it well and serenely." Peace
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