Monday, April 13, 2015

Lighten Your Backpack!

Edinburgh 
Take from the past that which belongs to tomorrow, and carry only that today!

It is not the burdens of today that cause me to be unhappy. It is the regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow that robs me of today…that takes my living away. When will I stop allowing my body to sit still while my mind moves between yesterday and tomorrow? When will my mind, body and soul all be alive and living all at the same moment? TODAY!

Laugh more, watch more sunsets, walk in more forests, swim in more rivers, hug more and love more, feel more, become more than you ever thought possible.   Start having fun. No one said that to be holy we would have to be sad, poor or miserable. Jesus preached love and joy and peace. He never preached misery, unhappiness or stress. Joy is about having fun. Joy is about living, real living.   Do yourself a favor and start having some real fun.   Do something today for the sheer joy of doing it, not to accomplish anything, not to have an underlying motivation, not to get something in return, but something that is a gift for my soul.    Do something just for the fun of it.   Give yourself a soul gift and rather spend today doing nothing constructive, but having a wonderful, joyful time, than waste your day with living in yesterday or tomorrow.

All the emotional baggage that we carry today influences our future.   Take a little while to dig around in the past and find the good lessons that you learned. Lessons are only learned if something positive and good came out of it. A lesson was not learned if what we brought with us is mistrust, bitterness and fear. Only those good lessons belong to tomorrow and only that must be carried today. This way, our tomorrow is influenced positively by what we carry. And what we carry with us today is creating our tomorrow.   Make sure that we only carry good things.   Leave the bad things behind in the past, where they belong. 

Today we live!

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