Thank you for today.
This simple phrase stopped my friends and I are in our tracks a few months ago. We were talking about the upcoming holidays, family and complicated relationships. The conversation was revolving around family drama and problems from the past that keep popping up.
My friend said to the group, "How would you handle this? What would you say? Should I even go?"
We went around the table and everyone had different advice ranging from "you need to move on" to "at some point you have to let this go." Then we got to our final friend and her answer was, "Tell them-thank you for today."
My heart blipped a bit when she uttered those words. Her answer to the question is something I often need to apply to my own life.
How many times in our life do we let that resentment build up and it ruins the present? How often do we take an action or words from years before and lay it, like a blanket, over a relationship weighing it down with the past? I loved her phrase because you aren't trying to forgive someone for past actions and you haven't set impossible expectations for the future. You are simply acknowledging today, this moment.
Last week, I took my friend's advice and it felt so good to say, "Thank you for today."
Have a good weekend,
Mary
