Live Your Best Life Now

To live graciously, we must live unhurriedly. For our soul’s sake, as well as the lives of those we love, we need to make room for life. Part of this may be taking a good hard look at your schedule and pruning down any unnecessary activities. But perhaps even more important, it is about slowing down the pace of your own hearts and mind to stop and enjoy all that you have been given. Make time for yourself and for your soul. Take time to talk to your husband and to sit on the floor with your children. Savor the moment you are living in and be present in the present. Realize that today can never be relived. Make sure that you enjoy your own life today. Today is all that you can truly grasp. As pressing as tomorrow’s needs may be, they can only be addressed in the future. Frederick Buechner wrote in his book Listening to Your Life:

"You are seeing everything for the last time, and everything you see is gilded with goodbyes…. Today now everything will pass because it is the last day. For the last time you are seeing this rain fall and in your mind that snow, this child asleep, this cat. For the last time you are hearing this house come alive because you who are part of its life have come alive. All the unkept promises if they are ever to be kept have to be kept today. All the unspoken words if you do not speak them today will never be spoken. The people, the ones you love and the ones who bore you to death, all the life you have in you to live with them, if you do not live it with them today, it will never be lived. It is the first day because it has never been before and the last day because it will never be again. Be alive if you can all through this today of your life. What’s to be done? Follow your feet. Put on the coffee. Start the orange juice, the bacon, the toast. Then go wake up your children and your husband. Think about the work of your hands, the book that of all conceivable things you have chosen to add to the world’s pain. Live in the needs of the day."

And so, live your life fully each day. Embrace the people you love. Forgive those who have hurt you. Invest your life and resources in people. Make it your aim to live life without regrets. Make each moment count, remembering that what you do today continues on into eternity and means something to God and to other people.