What’s our biggest promise to ourselves that we’re still sitting on?
Maybe this will encourage you.
Maybe it will scare you.
Maybe it will turn you away right now…
So sure I would never write the story I promised to write 30 years prior, I began anyway on April Fool’s day 2009.
It was to last 100 days.
That was 1,466 days ago.
An unassuming streak began.
Quietly.
Innocently.
Reverently.
Yesterday – April 5, 2013 – the streak ended at 1,464 consecutive days.
So exhausted but so sure once home from a week long trip, that I’d sneak in time from Family to write the five daily blogs.
Instead, like the line from Harry Chapin’s song, “Can you teach me to throw, I said not today, I got a lot to do…”
Chapin asked me to play his favorite card game.
It was 10pm. The game is complex. I’m not very good.
I hadn’t seen him in 100 hours.
We played. For 40 minutes.
Then we went to bed.
The unheralded (and yet astonishing) streak came to an end.
If you’ve made it this far, may today be a day like you haven’t had in a long time.
A day in which you find yourself yearning – more than you can ever recall – to begin anew.
To brush off that long ago abandoned dream of yours, and cuddle it gently, and whisper, “I’ve missed you. Will you forgive me? Can we try this one more time, together?”
It nourishes our soul and focuses our life.
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