One Day At a Time Sweet Jesus

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 6 weeks since I got sick.  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.

I was just looking back on some old blog posts from 2013 and came across this one.  It fit perfect to how I am feeling now.  The post was about the book God Never Blinks by Regina Brett. 50 Lessons for Life’s Little Detours. The chapter I was reading at the time 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 she was in. Those 24 hours were do-able as long as she 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 has been 6 weeks and my goals are just sitting there. Most days I haven’t even been able to blog or read anything meaningful. I really want to work on our DSD 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”.

Until Next Time,

Charyl