{"id":76,"date":"2009-09-30T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/09\/fresh-morning-something-great.html"},"modified":"2009-09-30T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T05:00:47","slug":"fresh-morning-something-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/09\/fresh-morning-something-great.html","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Morning: Something Great!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sun1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/sun1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"50\" width=\"50\" \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div>I came across this book by Brook Noel, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1402212240\" target=\"_blank\">Good Morning: 365 Positive Ways to Start Your Day<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp; In her introduction, she writes these uplifting words:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Something great happens each and every day.&nbsp; And because I am aware, I never miss it.&nbsp; Sometimes it is major&#8211;for example, a new business deal or an unexpected opportunity.&nbsp; Sometimes the gift is less obvious&#8211;a beautiful bird landing at my feeder, an email from a friend, the smile of a child, the pleasure from a great idea, or the joy that comes from complimenting someone.&nbsp; But sure enough, life brings a gift to my doorstep each and every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What is life bringing to your doorstep today?&nbsp; What gifts can you find, if you look carefully?<\/p>\n<p><b><font><b><font><b><font><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/fresh-morning\/\"><b><font color=\"#023d89\">Need more morning inspiration?&nbsp; Read our entire Fresh Morning collection!<\/font><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/b><\/font><\/b><\/font><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this book by Brook Noel, &#8220;Good Morning: 365 Positive Ways to Start Your Day.&#8221;&nbsp; In her introduction, she writes these uplifting words: &#8220;Something great happens each and every day.&nbsp; And because I am aware, I never miss it.&nbsp; Sometimes it is major&#8211;for example, a new business deal or an unexpected opportunity.&nbsp; Sometimes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,29,32],"tags":[118,990,117,80],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-holly-lebowitz-rossi","category-fresh-morning","category-inspiration","category-positive-things","tag-brook-noel","tag-fresh-morning","tag-good-morning","tag-morning-inspiration"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fresh Morning: Something Great! 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