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Who I will be tomorrow, three months from now, a year, 10 years…is rooted in the choices, attitudes, actions, habits, work I do TODAY!

Today is all I have.

And today I need God’s power that raised Jesus from the dead.

I cannot do it by myself. I need God’s power in me to live one day at a time.

Will who I am tomorrow thank who I am today? I have a responsibility to her. The Bible says do not be deceived; you will reap what you sow! My future self will reap whatever I sow–for good or bad.

What does the future me want? If (and that can be a big if) I choose well today, I dream that the future me will thank present me in these ways…

Thanks for doing the hard work I promise to maintain. I know it wasn’t easy. I will be a steward of all the good things you said yes to…and all the bad things you resisted.

Thanks for choosing health.

Thanks for saying no to all those things that in the moment made so much sense. But they were the wrong choice. All those things you battled mean nothing to me now; I can’t even remember them. But at the time you made the tough choices, they seemed so important.

Thanks for waking up and having some ambition again. I wouldn’t be here without you.

Thanks for choosing to get up off the couch and do things that really matter.

Thanks for dreaming big–and doing the work to get me here.

Thanks for creating an amazing life for me and my kids and my grandkids. A heritage and an inheritance.

Thanks for not wanting to be normal or average.

And thanks for not becoming a narcissist in the middle of ambition. I would hate myself.

Thanks for doing what you talked about doing. You’ve left me with no regrets and that’s an amazing place to be.

Thanks for doing hard things never knowing if anyone would be blessed by your work. They were.

Thanks for putting legs to your dreams.

Thanks for being faithful to use your gifts.

Thank you, present you, for doing the work to create an amazing life for future me. I am grateful.

“Take no thought for the morrow, for the morrow will take care of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” Matthew 6:34 (KJV–yes, I memorized it in KJV many years ago)