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91 Todays

October 2, 2012 By Verna Bowman 17 Comments

If we could turn back time, we probably wouldn’t.  I wouldn’t.

As much as I loved the sweet times of life when my children were young, I still wouldn’t turn back time.  I don’t want to re-do my past and I don’t want to un-do it. If I had the ability to turn back time I might make the same mistakes and have to learn the hard way again.

A recycled me is best to leave where it’s going . . .  slowly becoming, slowly going forward.

Every crevice in my face is a wise-line well earned.  My past has made me strong.  It’s been a crash course in people . . . and in God. I don’t want to be as far away from the finish line as I used to be. Yet, I wonder how I got to today so quickly.

When we look back, there will always be things we wish we’d done differently.

That’s the good of today . . .  a start-over.

By grace, we all get a today . . . 24 hours. We actually use about 2/3rd of the hours and then we sleep.  For many of us, we wake up only to snore through life. We all need a miracle to break out of the place of keep doing till we die.

If our days are merely to take up breathing space while shackled to a daily checklist we need to look at ourselves in the deeper places.  What’s in there that time should bring out?

Do you know as of today there are only 91 more todays left before the new year?   That means we have 91 opportunities to do what we meant to do with this year, with this life.

Sometimes in life we may feel like we’re not heading anywhere in particular.  Just functioning.

If you don’t know where you’re going any road will get you there is the Cheshire Cat’s philosophy. I love Lewis Carroll quotes.

Gratefully, this is not just a journey.  There is a destination.

How can we get to the place where Jesus heads the list and all the other is temporary and second?

What do you want from today – to only get through until it becomes tomorrow, or do you want to make it count for eternity?

Today . . . is the day we can make the right choice . . . ask someone’s forgiveness . . . tell someone they’re loved . . . contact the ones who’ve mattered most in our life.

The gift of today.

We can’t sit in the middle of the road waiting for tomorrow while it’s still today.

But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called TODAY . . . Hebrews 3:13

Be blessed,
Verna

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Comments

  1. Glenda Mills says

    October 2, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    Love this dear friend,
    Embracing the present and looking forward to the future God has planned for us. The best is yet to come in this year’s 91 days and all the years to come.
    Thanks for sharing! love you!

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    • vernabowman says

      October 2, 2012 at 8:58 pm

      Yes, embracing the present with the cheerful expectation of what God has planned, thank you, Glenda!

      Reply
  2. Glenda Mills says

    October 2, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    Love this dear friend,
    Embracing the present and looking forward to the future God has planned for us. The best is yet to come in this year’s 91 days and all the years to come.
    Thanks for sharing! love you!

    Reply
    • vernabowman says

      October 2, 2012 at 8:58 pm

      Yes, embracing the present with the cheerful expectation of what God has planned, thank you, Glenda!

      Reply
  3. laura says

    October 2, 2012 at 6:17 pm

    Verna, this is awesome. I love, love, love it. Thank you.

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    • vernabowman says

      October 2, 2012 at 8:57 pm

      Thanks, Laura!

      Reply
  4. vondaskelton says

    October 2, 2012 at 9:50 pm

    Beautiful post and beautiful reminder. Thank you…

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    • verna says

      October 3, 2012 at 7:03 am

      Thanks for faithfully stopping by to leave your encouragement my way, Vonda! Appreciated, dear friend.

      Reply
  5. vondaskelton says

    October 2, 2012 at 9:50 pm

    Beautiful post and beautiful reminder. Thank you…

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  6. Tammie Buckwalter says

    October 3, 2012 at 8:17 pm

    Beautiful and encouraging reminder Verna. I am loving and so filled with graditude for each new day in our new home but yet so thankful like you for every day of my past.

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    • vernabowman says

      October 6, 2012 at 7:50 am

      Oh, I’m so excited for this new space in life for you and the family! And so grateful for you to stop by and visit me . . . . still . . . Love you!

      Reply
  7. Tammie Buckwalter says

    October 3, 2012 at 8:17 pm

    Beautiful and encouraging reminder Verna. I am loving and so filled with graditude for each new day in our new home but yet so thankful like you for every day of my past.

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    • vernabowman says

      October 6, 2012 at 7:50 am

      Oh, I’m so excited for this new space in life for you and the family! And so grateful for you to stop by and visit me . . . . still . . . Love you!

      Reply
  8. Patricia Nase says

    October 11, 2012 at 9:14 pm

    Thank you so much for this beautiful reminder!!

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    • vernabowman says

      October 14, 2012 at 8:53 pm

      Oh my goodness! Pat! i am so-o glad you stopped by to visit my blog, and send this comment along, miss you!

      Reply

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