.......Salutation of the Dawn...belated Sacred Sunday

I know someone who lives in the past…
her thoughts are filled with all the things she did for others.
What she gave up for others.
This has made her bitter, angry and not much fun to be around.

I tell my daughters, who are both young women, to try to live life without regret….
I tell them each day is a gift and to try and treat it as such.

Of course I have some regrets…
some big and some small…
I know that what’s past is past, and I can’t go back,
I can only grab hold of today.
I don’t think I have to do BIG things in order to enjoy my thoughts of yesterday…
but I do have to DO.
I have to get up each day and be present.

I tell my daughters that some regret is probably unavoidable…health, time, money, family might stop them from fulfilling every vision of tomorrow...
but there are many offerings from the universe that come to all of us each day…
when one door closes another opens....
and if we are present, aware, and accepting, and willing to DO! much of what we dream can come true.

When I think of my bitter friend, I wonder if a point in time comes in life when age makes the world shrink so much that there can be no vision for a hopeful tomorrow?

It is pretty clear to me that if I live each day to the fullest,
every yesterday can be a dream of happiness...
The Chinese say,' the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago...
the second best time is today'.