Beginnings.............

We all have so many beginnings in our lives. And I truly think we don't realize just what a blessed thing this is. YOU GET TO START OVER!! You get to write on a clean slate. You have a brand new notebook and newly sharpened pencil and you have the ability and the chance to start that first page. We can break beginnings down to years, months, days and yes even seconds. Each tick of the clock is a new beginning.....a new chance to change old habits, or try new things, or see new places or just be the same because that is what you are meant to do, be and see. Being a teacher I always think of beginnings this time of year. I will get to begin to do my part in shaping the lives of my students. They and I will have a new beginning. We will be both positive and most probably negative in each other's lives at some point in the next 177 days. But we will BE together in this and we will have the opportunity to learn and share and give and take. When your feet hit the floor each morning, you are beginning. When you walk in the door at your job, you are beginning. When you come home to your family each evening, you are beginning. Realizing the beginnings in your life is living in the present.....not dwelling on the past.....not looking to the future and ignorantly going about your day missing out on the here and now. So your life isn't great right now.....BEGIN something. So you have problems......BEGIN to solve them. So you feel stuck in a rut.....you get the picture! I love firsts.....that first sip of coffee...that first page of a really thick book....that first bite of a truly delicious dish. Please don't let your beginnings sail by unobserved, unappreciated and under utilized. You only have so many. Cherish them for what they are. Begin!!!!!