Pitter Padder....

I've been passively training for a 1/2 marathon in May.  Passively training includes only training when conditions meet your expectations...not raining, some sun(as long as it rises or sets while I'm running), some type of fingerless glove that I can hold my iPod with but keep somewhat warm.  This is my definition to avoid instances of snow and rain - which we still do get here in New England in April. .Today is a day I'm supposed to run, according to the schedule.  I woke up this morning to the sound of hail and rain on the window and snuggled back in.  Later when I woke, for a momen0,t I was sad I did not have a chance to run.  I will not have time this evening as my son and I attend Bedtime Story Hour at the library most Tuesdays.  As I sat at the kitchen thinking of the missed moment of running, I looked out into the yard and saw the hundreds of day lilies I had planted this weekend.  Ah, that is why I'm not running.  They need a drink.  And in that moment, my mind shifted to grateful.  Grateful to knowing that everything happens for a reason and often times its bigger then me who knows why that reason is.  Pitter padder...enjoy the rain moment.

Today is Your Moment

“The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.”
― Arnold Bennett

Sometimes I search for quotes to give me a new perspective on a seemlingly ordinary day or moment.  I find solice in knowing generations before me have went through similar situations and have survived just fine.

So take today.  Take this moment.  Choose to live it in a new way that works for you.  Forgive yourself for yesterday and do not doubt you have it in you to live today to the fullest.

Have a wonderful day.
xx