Today Will Be Awesome
I have little inspirational quotes that I recently taped to little yellow post-it notes in my big Passion Planner to reminder me of something special to throw at my day every day until the end of the year. "Today will be awesome." How can you not have an awesome day when you start the day with that kind of command?
Are you one of those people who is always waiting for the other shoe to drop? This phrase comes from NYC, and apartment dwellers who would comment on their upstairs neighbors dropping their shoes to the floor just in time to interrupt their quiet and serene moments as the day was ending.
Although not actual shoes, I have, on a number of occasions, said this phrase to myself. It usually happens when I am in a comfortable space, and the chaos of my life is at a dull lapping rather that an oceanic roar. Instead of saying "YES, enjoy these days of awesome peace!" I say, "Uh oh, when is the shoe going to drop?"
And by golly, it does.
Only because of this one fact: I don't notice the awesome peace soon enough. I've grown so accustomed to the crazy, that it takes days, even weeks, for me to chill out enough to experience it before its near its end!
I doubt very much that Mary was thinking "Today will be awesome!" when she had to climb up onto a donkey, of all things, being nine months pregnant. (Come on moms, remember that last month? UGH!!!! Dads? Mom couldn't tie her own shoes, and sneezing? That was altered forever. You suddenly has a diapered wife AND had to be her shoe boy. I digress....and exaggerate....or do I?) Her feet were swollen. Her body was tired. There was a human in her belly. An unexplainable human. She was unmarried (That's what I've heard. Hard to prove. Hard to disprove.) Having a baby out of wedlock, that's hard these days, but acceptable. Back then? She was viewed as nothing more than a two-bit.... well, you get the picture. Bethlehem was crazy bustling and busy.
Cue contractions. I'm sure she wasn't saying "Today will be awesome." She may have dropped a good expletive or two. I would have. She wasn't perfect, she didn't have a perfect life, and she wasn't in perfect circumstances. But she was carrying perfection. The very definition of it.
I have a very ill family member and it may disrupt Christmas plans. My check still hasn't come in the mail, and I've only purchased a few gifts, and I have grandkids that I haven't even started shopping for. I'm missing my man, who lives about 105 miles away, but weather, and time are fighting against us as they do every winter. I am tired. People I love have said farewell to loved ones who have moved into their new mansions in Heaven. I'm bored. Not un-busy, just bored with what I'm doing. I'm putting on pounds because I am not outdoors and taking a million photographs in the mountains because reality and the world demand I earn a living somehow. I'm missing my kids and grandkids because, well, earning that living takes more hours out of the week than we have to spend together. Again, I digress. And I whine!
Today will be awesome. More post-its! I'm going to hang them everywhere! Computer screen. Bathroom mirror. Coffee pot. Guitar body. Camera body. Desk. All over my desk.
Do you know why today will be awesome? Because regardless of what I FEEL, today is the day that the Lord has made. And He saw that it was GOOD. Today. Will. Be. Awesome.
Are you one of those people who is always waiting for the other shoe to drop? This phrase comes from NYC, and apartment dwellers who would comment on their upstairs neighbors dropping their shoes to the floor just in time to interrupt their quiet and serene moments as the day was ending.
Although not actual shoes, I have, on a number of occasions, said this phrase to myself. It usually happens when I am in a comfortable space, and the chaos of my life is at a dull lapping rather that an oceanic roar. Instead of saying "YES, enjoy these days of awesome peace!" I say, "Uh oh, when is the shoe going to drop?"
And by golly, it does.
Only because of this one fact: I don't notice the awesome peace soon enough. I've grown so accustomed to the crazy, that it takes days, even weeks, for me to chill out enough to experience it before its near its end!
I doubt very much that Mary was thinking "Today will be awesome!" when she had to climb up onto a donkey, of all things, being nine months pregnant. (Come on moms, remember that last month? UGH!!!! Dads? Mom couldn't tie her own shoes, and sneezing? That was altered forever. You suddenly has a diapered wife AND had to be her shoe boy. I digress....and exaggerate....or do I?) Her feet were swollen. Her body was tired. There was a human in her belly. An unexplainable human. She was unmarried (That's what I've heard. Hard to prove. Hard to disprove.) Having a baby out of wedlock, that's hard these days, but acceptable. Back then? She was viewed as nothing more than a two-bit.... well, you get the picture. Bethlehem was crazy bustling and busy.
Cue contractions. I'm sure she wasn't saying "Today will be awesome." She may have dropped a good expletive or two. I would have. She wasn't perfect, she didn't have a perfect life, and she wasn't in perfect circumstances. But she was carrying perfection. The very definition of it.
I have a very ill family member and it may disrupt Christmas plans. My check still hasn't come in the mail, and I've only purchased a few gifts, and I have grandkids that I haven't even started shopping for. I'm missing my man, who lives about 105 miles away, but weather, and time are fighting against us as they do every winter. I am tired. People I love have said farewell to loved ones who have moved into their new mansions in Heaven. I'm bored. Not un-busy, just bored with what I'm doing. I'm putting on pounds because I am not outdoors and taking a million photographs in the mountains because reality and the world demand I earn a living somehow. I'm missing my kids and grandkids because, well, earning that living takes more hours out of the week than we have to spend together. Again, I digress. And I whine!
Today will be awesome. More post-its! I'm going to hang them everywhere! Computer screen. Bathroom mirror. Coffee pot. Guitar body. Camera body. Desk. All over my desk.
Do you know why today will be awesome? Because regardless of what I FEEL, today is the day that the Lord has made. And He saw that it was GOOD. Today. Will. Be. Awesome.
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