One of my joys in life is waking up and thinking about the day ahead. “Today!” I exclaim giddily to myself as I recall all on my today-to-do or not-today-to-do list.
It is a heady feeling to know that I can choose how I will live this day.
The scriptures are replete with admonitions about using today well. “Wherefore, if ye believe me, ye will labor while it is called today” (D&C 64:25). That verse aptly summarizes much of the counsel we receive about how to spend the day. Despite my not-today list, I am always aware that it’s a blessing to do work of all kinds. And even days of leisure and refreshment are not to be wasted.
Life should be lived not yawned.
Of course, one of the reasons for the urgency to live well today is that so much of life is fleeting. Consider this reminder: “Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, even so will he clothe you, if ye are not of little faith” (3 Nephi 13:30). To miss the grass under foot today, as it were, is to miss opportunities to increase in faith and gratitude.
Underlying my delight in today is the comforting truth that “…God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness…” (Mormon 9:9). To wake up daily with that knowledge is a pure gift, a grand reason to relish today.
Nadine AllenJanuary 23, 2014
Carol, loved your article! Nadine
Adriana WeberJanuary 23, 2014
I love it.