I't a quiet Sunday morning as I sit in my office contemplating the day, a million thoughts run through my head......It is amazing the things I see sitting from my desk..
I have this calendar that hangs directly accross from my desk and the pictures are horses...this particular month of April is a creme colored horse running in the surf...
About 20 or more pictures of my friends and family...A really pretty print of the Public Market Center I picked up when I was in Seattle...a music box I got for my 5th birthday from my dad when we went up to mount Charleston for a "picnic birthday" I still remember that.
Books and more books...candles...ipod...and cards..i keep cards from my brother and friends..
My office is lined with pictures drawn by Ray..To mom...from Ray..Alice in wonderland...a bunny.
My Cat...Mr. Kitty he sits on his box, his favorite shoe box that I would never throw away...it is his throne...(an Ugg shoe box)you wonder what goes through his head...
I have a picture from NYC hanging behind me...a piture of street signs....I love NYC there is one other place that I have been that had that city hustle and bustle and just the noise in the early morning and that was Portland, Oregon...
A little butterfly box from my mother..candles and my little prayer square...I have a tile in the corner of my desk that says "Believe all things are possible if your believe" on it I have a half moon silver paperwieght that is engraved with a quote from anais nin---"Dreams are necessary to Life"..also a wooden bookmark that says: "When you've got something special, never forget it...another metel bookmark that is engraved with pink hearts and has pink ribbon and beads hanging from it..it reads: "Faith is the vision of the heart"..On my prayer square There are prayer beads from eqypt...a smooth stone my brother gave me...3 pins from the US Holocaust Museum, one pink triangle...one written in hebrew that says "Never Forget" and another that is a silver circle the size of a quarter with a jewish star stamped out of the middle and it says: L'chaim..."To Life"..a beautiul Cross sits in my prayer corner of my desk as well very ornate with jewels embedded only aobut 5 inches high...I have the words live well love much laugh often on a scented packet too...
A purple crystal...cat food..coach purses..a christmas tree...porcelyn dolls..paper work...shoes... a purple lei...a paper shredder...make up...business cards...cable cords...cell phones...perfume..sunglasses..pocket knife..jump drive..diet dr. pepper, a walkie talkie.. pens.. reciepts.. playing cards, cd's dvd's, more purses, coasters and the list goes on and on...
The years of memories that I can see span from 1971 to 2008 and it is amazing that everyday I walk into this office and see but... what do I really see in front of me?
It is yesterday, it is years ago...Life can be lived only one day at a time. All of your yesterdays and tomorrows are out of reach today. But do you know what is tempting? To drag remnants of your past right along with you all the way to tomorrow.. The problem with that? You basically need a moving truck to keep yesterday with you...yesterday is too heavy a load. It has already consumed enough of your time and energy, consumed so much of you the first time around..why let yesterday steal today right underneath your feet?
What do you see underneath your feet, a rug of yesterdays? Put yesterday in it's place, behind you where it belongs..step off of the rug and step forward.
As for the good things that have happened to you in the past, they can hold you back as much as those that have broken your heart. Continuing to hang on the the "good ole days", to hold tightly to the past accomplishments, relationships, friends, job, or lifestyle you enjoyed but no longer have, causes discontentment and disrtaction.
If you are continually looking back you are likley missing the beauty and opportunity that God's planted right in front of you. Limit the time and energy that you spend on things outside of your reach---and your control.
Allow yourself to be fully present in the present, so you can get the most out of every day....that comes your way...
Stacy
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