Your Birthday?

Happy birthday, if today is your birthday, that is. You will probably spend a portion of the day doing what folk usually do on their birthdays. But, for our purposes here today, I want to look upon each dawn that we awaken as a birthday. Each day that we awaken, we have the privilege of seeing time give birth to a new day, in that our lives have been spared for a while longer.

Now

On this new day that we have been allowed to see, what good thing can we do? It may be something that we have done before, or it may be an extension of the work that we have already begun. It could be that we:

• put stars back in an old woman's eyes


• gladden someone's dreary existence


• provide a coat for a child's chilled back


• buy a pair of shoes to get someone's feet off of the ground


• donate a package of socks to a homeless shelter


• or any number of other things.

So

Remembering that our journey is not complete, we realize that there is so much more that we can do, need to do, and must do. This means that we must work on our habits by accentuating and escalating the positive ones and eradicating and diminishing the negative ones. And as always, let's remember to BYDWP.

Here is a poem that fits in with the train of thought of this piece.

A New Day

Another day closer

To my journey's end

Yet, even then I know

That I finish to begin.

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Doing What I Can, While I Can Because I Care,

Alma L. Stepping On Carr-Jones