Behold this Day

Living gratefully today, I appreciate the predictable morning sounds of coffee brewing and our dog Oliver eating. 

This was the "Word for the Day" last Friday, October 22:

“Behold this day, for it is yours to make.”   

Black Elk

The day before, I came across a similar thought-provoking quote on this bench.  It is on the campus of Augustana University in Sioux Falls, my husband Darcy’s alma mater. We took a stroll there on a beautiful fall day. 

 “However great your fortune you cannot buy one day. 

So live your life remembering you are not here to stay.”

A total of nine words in the first quote and twenty in the second. A total of 24 hours in a day, 1,440 minutes, and 86,400 seconds. How will I spend mine today? How will you spend yours?  

Take a few pauses and take in the gifts that surround you and spring forth from within you. Smile. Laugh. Cry. Share. Have a good day!