Today's Hope

South Portland Spring Garden

If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time - 

not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life 

after we have died. 

The best preparation for a better life next year 

is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. 

Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance 

unless we coin them into a rich present life. 

Today should always be our most wonderful day.

Thomas Dreier
American Author, Editor and Philosopher

Now I have heard about stopping to smell the roses...but can you smell the flowers that are now breaking through into the Spring?  I don't think that the focus on the present omits a promise that the future brings the Spring no matter what kind of winter we have endured.  All I am trying to say is that when we walk on the barren, frozen ground of March (and snow in Maine!), we walk with a sense that today has the seeds which will eventually bloom--and it is worth cultivating the spirit of patience which knows it begins now...and is the hope for the future.