Redemption

Three days after a dreadful loss at home to a mediocre team, the local college basketball team won convincingly over the best team in the conference. What happened? The same players that were so dreadful, played brilliantly yesterday. They learned from their mistakes. Cannot we all? A defeat, or a messy time in our lives need not be the end. These times can be our teachers. Sometimes we need to be knocked down, to suffer, to lose, in order to become awakened. Awakened, we can reach for our potential. The team had taken some things for granted. Do you? Now they know that success is not a given. We cannot just show up, even if Woody Allen says it is 80% of anything.

Yesterday's success or good day is no guarantee for today. Yesterday's prayer was for yesterday. The kindness you showed in the past for someone close to you is past kindness. Today is a new day. Do you mope or learn from mistakes? Do you take today for granted based upon the past? If the past was messy, do you expect today to be messy too? If so, you might ask yourself if misery begins with you today.