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The Lifebuilder’s Creed

    By Dale Witherington

    Today is the most important day of my life.
    Yesterday with its successes and victories, struggles and failures is gone forever.
    The past is past.
    Done.
    Finished.
    I cannot relive it. I cannot go back and change it.
    But I will learn from it and improve my TODAY.

    TODAY. This moment. NOW.
    It is God’s gift to me and it is all that I have.

    Tomorrow with all its joys and sorrows, triumphs and
    troubles isn’t here yet.
    Indeed, tomorrow may never come.
    Therefore, I will not worry about tomorrow.

    Today is what God has entrusted to me.
    It is all that I have. I will do my best in it.
    I will demonstrate the best of me in it —
    my character, giftedness, and abilities —
    to my family and friends, clients and associates.
    I will identify those things that are most important to do TODAY,
    and those things I will do until they are done.
    And when this day is done
    I will look back with satisfaction at that
    which I have accomplished.
    Then, and only then, will I plan my tomorrow,
    Looking to improve upon Today, with God’s help.

    Then I shall go to sleep in peace … content.

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    Source: Today Matters by John C. Maxwell

      “I like to walk alone on country paths,
      rice plants and wild grasses on both sides,
      putting each foot down on the earth
      in mindfulness, knowing
      that I walk on the wondrous earth.
      In such moments, existence is a miraculous
      and mysterious reality.

      People usually consider walking on water
      or in thin air a miracle.
      But I think the real miracle
      is not to walk either on water or in thin air,
      but to walk on earth.
      Every day we are engaged in a miracle
      which we don’t even recognize:
      a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves,
      the black, curious eyes of a child–
      our own two eyes.
      All is a miracle.”

      ~ Thich Nhat Hanh