One Thing We Can Do

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God Bless.

Today's Quotation:

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can give all our attention to the opportunity before us.

Mark van Doren

Today's Meditation:

Being completely present is the swiss army knife of living life fully. When we can be all here and fully present, we can experience life in all its glory--the ups and downs, the laughter and the tears, the heartfelt relationships. And when we are "all here," we can give all our attention, all our purpose, all our energy, into making the most out of the opportunities that lie before us at that very moment.

Do not be in a rush to get through the day. Take your time as you go from task to task. Live, laugh, breathe, and love. Life is more about the quality of our experience here and our achievements, than it is about the quantity. Over the years, I have come to notice things about my parents and grandparents that never really occurred to me as a young boy. It used to seem peculiar to me that grandma would want to simply walk with us while we rode bikes around town and watch us play on the playground. And when grandpa took us fishing, he did not seem to mind to be the one doing all the work baiting the line and removing the fish we caught. And my parents spent many nights staying home with us--just being a family. I remember nights sitting around the living room praying the rosary together.

The more we experience of life, the less time we spend being passive, just sitting around with nothing to do. Find things that you enjoy. Take up new hobbies. Expand your horizons and interests. We can make a difference in our lives by recognizing every second we have here on Earth as precious, and then making the most of our gift by being "all here."

Today's Challenge: Approach every task today with full awareness.

Questions to consider:

Do you find it easy to be completely present? Why?

What is the value in learning to live in the moment?

How can we find new things that we are interested in?

For further thought:

One of Dr. Johnson's ingredients of happiness was, "A little less time than you want." That means always to have so many things you want to see, to have, and to do, that no day is quite long enough for all you think you would like to get done before you go to bed.

Helen Hunt Jackson

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