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I’m a dreamer, but I’ve been known to look back a lot, too.
 
What does that mean?  It means I don’t always live TODAY to the fullest. 
 
We don’t have the promise of tomorrow.  We can’t go back and redo yesterday.  What can we do?
We can live today, experiencing every second!!!  I love how Bill and Gloria Gaither have always written songs like “We Have This Moment Today”…taking those very ordinary things such as a cup of coffee, ketchup on their kids' noses, or playing baseball with a grandmother to encourage us to look at it all….those ordinary events that can whiz passed.  If we aren’t careful, we’ll miss something that could be life-changing. 
 
I don’t know why we look for the big stuff…missing the little stuff in the process.  To get His point across, hasn’t God used those ordinary daily things like playing with children, fishing, plowing in the field more than He's used the magnificent things like parting seas, rescuing from lions’ dens, feeding thousands with hardly anything to start with?  While those are all works of God from which great lessons are to be learned, He does seem to delight in talking with us about the minute by minute events. 
 
To be honest, I’m just now, these past 10 years or so, learning the importance of not waiting for “that huge moment” to take place…but to grab hold of this very second and LIVE IT.
 
After all, we only have “this moment today” promised to us.  Let’s LIVE IT, LOVE IT and THANK GOD FOR IT!!!
 
Ann D

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