YoU aRe ToDAy.

It is an off day. Who am I kidding.......its been an off week. I get up and go to a job that I adore daily, but every hour of that day there are question marks floating in my head. There are so many unknowns right now that it just continues to add weight to my shoulders. It continues to dull my life a little bit more with each question that goes unanswered. And myself, like any other human I imagine, is like the human version of a Jenga game. You know the one.....the game where you try and slip blocks out of the tower, hoping that it won't fall. But every time you remove a block, you hold your breath and watch as the tower wobbles. Eventually, you pull the one block that brings the tower down. Tiny blocks are being removed from me. It think this is called life. Every situation or unfortunate circumstance removes one more block and makes us a bit more unstable. I hold my breath, hoping that this won't be the block that causes me to finally tumble to the ground, forming a pile of blocks. I know I can't complain, I have a job that I love. I am have multiple degrees, a roof over my head, a car that usually runs well and people who continually bless my life. But I was at that place where I let everything else pull me down. I am human...and I am allowed to have days/weeks like this. That is the funny thing about life. Cause we get in those funks. We have those days. And then something comes along to snap me out of it. Too, we live timidly between those going before us and those coming up and after us. Squeezed by the past and worried of the future, we shrink away. We hide. The fear of having no place in this week, no place in this story, cripples us from living our own story in this week of our lives. I imagine God gently births each day, welcomes her and calls her by name. I imagine that at the right moment God sends each day into the world with the same words of advice and blessing. I imagine God says to each new day, "You are today. This is your day. Be today and be only today. Do not be yesterday, she is gone. Do not be tomorrow, she is not yet born. Be no day but today. Be your own day only and be the best day you can be." And when today is fearless and free to be herself, her own self, her best self, we pronounce the day, "Beautiful!" So with me, so with you - let us each live daily as our own and best selves. Then at dawn God will surely bless us each, "Beautiful!" My fears and frustrations are nothing compared to the maker of my today. To the creator of me. I forget that too often. I forget that I have the freedom to live my today as fearless. And that it is beautiful. May you be today, and only today.