Day 1 of 1

Today marks the New Year, January 1, 2013 and while it is indeed day one of this year, it is safe to say that since no one knows the day or hour that each day we are blessed to wake up, it is day one for us all over again. We get a redo every day that we are granted life. If you failed yesterday, you can try again. If you were not your best self you have a chance to make amends. Time would not be broken down into seconds if God wanted us to count the hours or the days.

I remember when I was pregnant with my daughter there were days of panic just because I was terrified of dying before she was grown. Over the years especially after we moved to a state with no family around I would have these panic attacks. I had a note on my dashboard and back of my drivers license with instructions on who to call to make sure my child did not become lost in a foster system while they tried to contact my family. Not making it to tomorrow haunted me and I realized in my prayers today that it came from lack of trust which reduced my level of faith with God.

So now that we started today as day one, the question becomes what did you do with this day? I actually took it to rest and there was no guilt associated with sleeping for hours during a midday nap. I have no remorse about not taking the tree down today or for not completing the million course meal I had initially planned. I am even okay with the 25 minutes of exercise I did, it's better than the nothing I originally had planned for today!!!

Don't beat yourself up over goals that you set on day one and did not complete and don't feel you need to wait until next year to begin again. I picked up a one year bible that was gifted to me back in May and I started with Day 1 today, but in hindsight if I had started Day 1 back in May, I would be more than half way done with reading the bible in its entirety. We are instructed to live each day as our last, so with each new dawn we can press restart and begin again!!!