{"id":890,"date":"2011-10-24T12:41:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T16:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dailyjoys\/?p=890"},"modified":"2011-10-24T12:42:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T16:42:34","slug":"890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/10\/890.html","title":{"rendered":"A Gift, A Teacher and No Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Monday October 24.<\/p>\n

You are in some section of the progress of this day.<\/p>\n

This is a canvas book mark created by<\/p>\n

Christine Mason Miller (also known as Swirly Girl).<\/p>\n

This day is no accident.<\/p>\n

It is a gift.<\/p>\n

It arrived at the door of your day: you didn’t order it, you were unaware of the contents and each second you open is a surprise.<\/p>\n

This day is your teacher.<\/p>\n

It has insight, lesson and opportunity to learn in each second. All these pieces of knowledge are available to you with one simple requirement: you have to be attentive enough to see them and strong enough to seize them.<\/p>\n

This day is your road.<\/p>\n

It is here for you to move forward along the passionate pathway of your destiny, your calling, your deepest purpose.\u00a0 Do you find yourself scoffing with, “Hah!\u00a0 Deepest purpose?\u00a0 I have four hours of filing ahead of me?”\u00a0 There is lesson in that.\u00a0 Opportunity for a new way, a better way, a faster way.\u00a0 There is opportunity for excellence in each thing before us: every single moment.<\/p>\n

I use Christine’s book mark to mark my daily log – it helps me remember that my days are no accident, each day is both a gift and my teacher.\u00a0 What will the blank page of the rest of this day offer to help you write?<\/p>\n

God never consults your past to determine your future.\u00a0 – Mike Murdock<\/p>\n

You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.\u00a0 – Jack London<\/p>\n

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.\u00a0 – Norman Vincent Peale<\/p>\n

There is only one way to succeed at anything and that is to give everything. – Vince Lombardi<\/p>\n

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