it's a beautiful day...

This is the girls and my new song that we love to sing at the top of our voices as we drive along... Everyday as I hear their little voices, I am reminded how blessed I really am. No matter how crazy the day gets, how frazzled, and out of sorts I may feel, this brings me back to reality, and reminds me how easy it really is to decide to have a beautiful day.

Life is a journey,

Not a destination,

There are no mistakes,

Just chances we’ve taken

Lay down your regrets cause all we have is now

Wake up in the morning

And get out of bed

Start making a mental list in my head

Of all of the things that I am grateful for

Early in the morning

It’s the dawn of a new day

New hopes

new dreams

new ways

I open up my eyes and I open up my mind

and I wonder how life will surprise me today

Early in the morning

It’s the dawn of a new day

New hopes, new dreams, new ways

I open up my heart

and I’m gon’ do my part

and Make this a positively beautiful day

La la la la la la la la la

It’s a Beautiful Day

Life is a challenge not a competition

You can still smell the roses

and be on a mission

Just take a moment to get in touch

with your heart

Sometimes you feel like you’ve

got something to prove

Remind yourself that there’s

only one you

Just take a moment to give thanks

of who you are

Early in the morning

It’s the dawn of a new day

New hopes, new dreams, new ways

I open up my eyes and

I open up my mind and

I wonder how life will surprise me today

Early in the morning

It’s the dawn of a new day

New hopes, new dreams, new ways

I open up my heart

and I’m gon’ do my part

and Make this a

positively beautiful day

La la la la la la la la la

It’s a Beautiful Day

Let’s make this a wonderful

Let’s make this a powerful

Let’s make this a Beautiful Day

It’s a Beautiful Day

Life is a journey,

Not a destination,

There are no mistakes,

Just chances we’ve taken

Lay down your regrets

cause all we have is now
India Arie ~ Beautiful Day

I know these days it's pretty hard to stay up beat. Especially with all that's going on in the world, our nation, and heck even our own cities. We have all in our own ways faced difficulties this year, in this season of uncertainty. But, at the end of the day ~ and at the beginning of a new one; the things that most matter, are not things at all.

Blessings come to us in small packages, in hidden meanings, in ways we may not even notice, especially when we are too wrapped up in other things to acknowledge them.

Here is what I know for myself...

I am most blessed, when I give thanks to God for the little things. For the people in my life that give my life meaning, and in finding gratefulness for what he has given me. To hear the laughter of my children, and wake up each day next to the love of my life, and to know that God has blessed me with those things, then the other things just don't matter. I only have this one life, and I want to live it... not look back and regret it. I don't want to be tied down to worry. I don't want to be paralyzed by fear. I want to start each day feeling like it really can be beautiful.

I really hope that if you are having a hard time feeling life has beauty, that you can find it... start by buying the new India Arie CD, blast track no. 16... and sing... trust me, it will work!!!