This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:24
As I was reading the sentence, "What is your story of what happened today?" my mind dropped a couple words and I read it as, "What is your story of today?"
What is your story of today?
I like that. A lot. In fact, I think that is a perfect question to ask.
To others and to ourselves.
It gives a chance to not only tell what happened but to tell about how we feel.
A chance to tell how we lived the day that God has given.
It's a different twist on the standard "How are you today?" "Fine" exchange that we engage in without conscious thought.
What is your story of today?
It makes me, and hopefully those that I may ask, stop and think for a moment.
For the stories of our days are made up of 86,400 seconds (if I did my math correctly!), and
those seconds are filled with both beauty and ugliness, sadness and happiness, boredom and excitement, chaos and calm.
What is your story of today?
The question gives those of us who love to write a perfect starting point to sort out the
86,400 seconds,
1,440 minutes, and
24 hours
of our day.
And in the sifting and sorting, may we learn to be more mindful, more present, more aware.
It's so easy, especially during this busy season, to rush through our day.
To scrawl our stories so quickly that no one, including us, can read it.
It's a blur of flourishes, run-on sentences, flashes of genius, sentence fragments, and misspellings.
But without our awareness, it remains a mystery to both us and others.
What is your story of today?
I think I may adopt this question...and I may add another.
"Who is writing my story? Me or those around me?
But that...that is a question for another day...another post...another time.
What is your story of today?
That's enough for now.
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