One Day/Step at a Time

One Day/Step at a Time

You do not always have to know when you are going to get to your goal, or how you are going to get to your goal, but you do need to take the next step.

~Peggy McColl

This is an awesome quote. One I need right about now. Sometimes I feel like I am dead in the water. It has been 3 weeks today since I had my spinal neck surgery. 10 days since I came down with the stomach flu which set the neck thing back a ways in the healing process. Now my face is swelling up like the Pillsbury Dough Boy and I have no clue why. It is almost getting comical except for the fact that I want to get better and get on with my life and my goals. I know God is in control and He has a purpose in all this but I sure don’t have a clue what or why. I just press forward one day, one step at a time.

Sitting in the waiting room while Dennis got his eyes examined this afternoon and was reading a book my friend gave me for Christmas. God Never Blinks by Regina Brett. 50 Lessons for Life’s Little Detours. The chapter I was reading was You Can Get Through Anything Life Hands You if You Stay Put in the Day You Are in and Don’t Jump Ahead. The author was describing a time when she had cancer and struggled on a daily basis. But she realized that all she had to do was get through the day she was in. The past was done and the future was just that “the future”. She says “The only way through it all was to stop dwelling on what yesterday brought (good or bad) and what tomorrow might bring (good or bad). The only day worth living was the one I was in. Those 24 hours were do-able as long as I didn’t drag the past and future into them.”

She said it took discipline to put on blinders and not look back or forwards. As long as she held to that plan she did ok. As long as she focused on the moment at hand life was do-able.

This was just the advice I needed to hear today. I have been discouraged because I am not getting better any quicker. I have been discouraged that it is day 10 of the year and my goals are just sitting there. Most days I haven’t even been able to blog or read anything meaningful. I, so want to work on our Empower Network business and just can’t get it out of neutral. But, the bottom line is all I have to do is worry about today. This 24 hours. Tomorrow will come soon and those 24 hours will be do-able too.

As my mama used to say “One day at a time, sweet Jesus”.

Have a wonderful 24 hours,
Charyl aka mom8isme