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TGIF.  How often do we hear that?  Thank God it’s Friday.  For years I’ve been hearing this expression by friends, family, co-workers, and even on the daily news.  Seems like it’s a unanimous feeling.  We all look forward to the weekend when we supposedly don’t work and when “all the fun stuff” happens.   The general consensus from almost everyone I know is that we are all looking forward to something in the future, something else, something different. 

The only problem with the TGIF mentality is that it takes our focus off the days we spend in the between times.  Seems like most of us spend the majority of our time just drifting thru the “other” days and anticipating the next thing whether it be the weekend, or the holiday, or event.   Thus our so-called mundane days in-between fail to be fulfilling, fail to bless others, and fail to bring us a sense of satisfaction.  Then the ones we've looked so forward to fail to meet our expectations and disappoint us.

Wouldn’t it be much better if we had a TGIM, TGIT, TGIW, and so on attitude?  What if we greeted Mondays with a “thank God it’s Monday” attitude?   Could it just be that our Mondays could and would be very different?  Wouldn’t our mindset be changed for the better?  What if we greeted every day with a “thank God” it’s whatever day it is viewpoint?   How different would our outlook be if we approached every day with the same anticipation, energy, and enthusiasm as we do the weekends and special events days?

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had enough of the always looking to something else outlook.  I’ve spent far too many days wasted on looking to something else.  I’ve missed far too many blessings by looking in the distance instead of the now.  I’ve hurried thru way too many minutes and hours that I can never get back.  I want to find the blessings in every minute of every day.  I want to savor them, park in them, and draw everything from them that they have to offer. 

In case you hadn’t noticed, life is short.  It hurries by and without noticing suddenly years have passed.  Years slip away that we seem to have been in some sort of trance and missed.  God warned us from the beginning that our time on this earth will go much too quickly.  He referred to our lives as mist, a breath, and flowers,

James 4:14 What is your life?  You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Job 7:7 Remember, O God that my life is but a breath. 

Psalm 103:15-16 As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a glower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.

So join me in this.  Let’s make a vow to embrace every moment of every day.  Let’s look for God in every day and every face.  Let’s find the blessings that are right in front of us if we are only looking.  Let’s savor every day and not waste a single one by looking somewhere else to some other time.    Thank God it’s today! 

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.   Psalm 118:24
Put another way in The Message; This is the very day that God acted.  Let’s celebrate and be festive!


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