Today is a new day

New day......hmmmmmm
What exactly does that mean?
After all most of the same issues I faced yesterday are still sitting around making ugly faces at me, I still have the same surroundings and the people I deal with are still the same.
So in essence it looks to be a repeat of yesterday, give or take one or two changes in my schedule, and the fact that this day has a different name.
So what is this new day stuff?
Well.....
Glad I asked., (Who I asked comes later)
See, today I have the opportunity, to look at all of the above in a new way, a different perspective, with greater understanding, and wisdom.
I can consciously choose to make this a new day, with new reactions, responses, and decisions for the events that arise in my life.
Hard work? Sometime, yeah!!!
While sometimes it just takes a second to readjust my focus, or to remember, that it really doesn't have to be the same old, same old,  I can make the change.
Oh not in the peolpe around me, they are in charge of their stuff.
But I can make me think and do different.
Some times I'll make on small reaction change just to see what will happen.
There have been times when it made all the difference in my world, others not so much.
When not so much, I take note and the next time it comes around, or something like it' I try something different.
I like to think of it as "the Grand Experiment".
What will happen if I do this or that?
The outcome has some times blown me away with the awesomeness of it result, and again some times not so much. There have been time when I really didn't see it going THAT way at all; and I chalk it up as a learning experience.
Now then, I did mention that I would tell you who I asked.



Wait for it.................................



Yeah, I ask God.

Believe it or not, He is very approachable, and actually answers back if I'm willing to listen; so I pray a lot daily,
Oh, not your great somber "O we beseech thee o great wither there forest religious sounding balderdash".
I mean, I just talk to him like I'm talking here.
After all Jesus paid a really heavy price to enable me to have this freedom, this direct access to the Creator of the whole universe.
I think the least I can do to show my appreciation is to utilize this access.
So, when it starts to look from my point of view that today is just going to be a repeat of yesterday; and all the stuff I went to sleep, hoping would go away; is still waiting for me when I wake up; I go to Abba and ask for a different out look.

After all, today IS a new day.