My New Life Begins Today

My new life begins today.
 
September 19, 2016
 
Why today?  Why not?  It’s my mother’s birthday.  She is 86.  Born 1930.  Happy birthday, dear mother.
That’s a good road marker but not the reason my new life begins today.  As I woke up this morning
an enormous longing rose from a long-smoldering unquiet in my soul, broke the surface and the silence.
It didn’t scream. It calmly whispered:  My new life begins today.  
 
My spirit stretched, reached, opened to a hunger.  For more.  To throw off the smothering fog of Thoreau’s
“quiet discontent.”   To be more.  To see more and reflect more of God’s glory poured daily into this life
 
I told my drowsy wife. “That sounds good,” she mumbled.  I told both my sons. They were amused.  I texted
it to my daughter in her new life at college.  My new life begins today.
 
And it’s already begun. I had two song ideas before I got out of the shower. I have FIVE books begun
that need finishing.  I have a song three weeks old for my daughter that I still need to sing to her. It’s about
getting a grip on time passing. In my new life I don’t have time for that kind of irony.  I have a Broadway
musical in the works with some inspiring friends.  I need to connect and reconnect with others.  I even
​had a new book idea today called, “My New Life Begins Today.”
 
So.  That’s it.  Just thought I’d let you know.  My new life begins today.
 
Billy