"What if you had only a day in which to do the one thing that matters? Today is the day." -Jan Frazier

   "Today is the day." Or is it? Isn't it more likely that you and I will build a raft of excuses for why this is not the day and thus squander more of our precious moments or, like Bogart in "Casablanca," try to drink away whatever grief afflicts us.

   The good news is that you, as a caregiver, will in fact do many things that matter. You as a light bearer are engaged in meeting the needs of others. 

   The moments you waste are not because you do tasks but because you may do many of them mindlessly. I have this problem – especially because I love to daydream.

   Why do you and I live so much of our lives in this way – missing the actual moment in favor of savoring another?

   It is incredibly hard to live a mindful life. Fear dogs your steps and blocks your way to the freedom with which you were born – to living a joyful (though not necessarily happy) life. 

   What is remarkable is that the Love you seek is completely within your grasp. How maddening that Love seems so elusive when it is, in fact, here already. 

   I often wonder how many of us live as prisoners. You are free within your being yet you may allow fears of your supervisor, your mortgage or anxiety about illnesses that may befall you, to penetrate your natural serenity.

   Who are you within and outside your own skin? Today is your day to ask Love to answer that question for you.

-Erie Chapman