"Is life any different today?"

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I remember when our older daughter turned sixteen. I asked her shortly after her birthday if she felt any different now that she’s sixteen. She sounded rather perplexed as she said, “No, not really any different.”

Isn’t that the way life goes? You get all geared up and excited about some upcoming big event, a milestone, like turning sixteen or being married fifty years or going to college or retiring from work and when you get there, you wake up the next morning and go, “Huh? What’s the big deal?”

It’s easy to live life that way, isn’t it? To live in anticipation of some big event really shortchanges today, doesn’t it? I mean, if nothing’s different the day after your big event, and you hang your happiness on life being better afterwards, you’re just setting yourself up for disappointment, aren’t you?

Let’s see every day as special, not just the big events. I mean, who knows what happiness can be yours today? God knows…and God is whispering that happiness to you right now. So listen to life and make a life, not just a living, on this special day.

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