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Your Tomorrow Starts Today
Stop planning to do what you’re designed to do
Sometimes we get so caught up in planning for the future, setting goals and striving for a better tomorrow that we miss out on today and all it has to offer us. Without today, without this moment, the goals we set are nothing more than dreams and ideas we hope to accomplish.
But what about today?
What will we do today to create that vision we have for tomorrow and for five years from now?
I have been guilty of telling myself I’ll do that tomorrow. I’ll start again tomorrow. If I make bad choices today, it’s okay. And while that may be true in many ways, it’s not my best option for how to live.
And here’s the thing. If tomorrow can be a new day, if tomorrow can be a fresh start, why can’t today be one, too? If I make a choice I wish I hadn’t in the morning, why can’t I choose to start again — take a do over — this afternoon? Today has too much potential and opportunity to overlook it and wait for tomorrow to get here.
We risk missing the miracles and opportunities available to us today if we become lost in the process of planning for what we want to do. We are all called and designed both to create and to inspire beauty in spite of our brokenness. We need to embrace today’s moments, even if we…
