Life is Messy – How to Have a Great Day Every Day

“Let me tell you the secret to having a great day, every day. When you wake up each morning, ask yourself, “Whose Day can I make today?” Once you have settled on the person, unleash your creativity to explore how you can make a difference in that person’s day today.

We live in a culture that constantly tells us to put ourselves first. Others are an afterthought. But the truth is, we all have a need and desire to make a difference in other people’s lives.

Whether you are rich or poor, young or old, influential and famous, or not, you can make a powerful difference is someone else’s life today.

So, don’t let what you can’t do, interfere with what you can do. Identify that person each morning, do something to make their day, and make every day a great day.”


Minute Meditation – The Way to Spiritual Freedom

Selflessness and material generosity flow from and into spiritual freedom. And this free spirit leads us unerringly out of ourselves to God who is perfect freedom and in whom and for whom we move with the uninhibited freedom of a child. We become aware that we are children of a God who loves us with a Father and Mother’s love, and everything we do becomes a gift for God, to please and thank God for being who God is to us. Gradually, the negativism and disapproval of life’s persistent critics means little at all when compared to our determination to do the will of the One who made us and redeemed us. Even our occasional ignorance of what that will is, is purified in our intention to do it as best we can.

—from the book Song of the Sparrow: New Poems and Meditations by Murray Bodo, OFM

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