My cousin Vandee had these thoughts posted on her blog and I loved them so I am going to share them as well.
Tom Hennen has a line in his poem, The Life of a Day, that says,
“We examine each day before us with barely a glance and say, ‘no, this isn’t one I’ve been looking for,’ and wait in a bored sort of way for the next, when we are convinced, our lives will start for real.”
That line is a little bit frightening because you read it and realize you’re guilty. You’ve been waiting for that day when your life will start “for real.”
The trouble with life is that it’s just so daily.
Live while you have the chance.
All the little things in life add up to your life. If you don't get it right then nothing else matters. It gets lonely in the promised land by yourself.
Passion does not produce commitment.
Commitment produces passion.
Find something that needs to be done
And throw yourself headlong into it.
Let today
be the day
your life begins
for real.
