Every breath is a second chance

All in all, today was a success.

I started the day with Bible reading. And I'm totally digging www.biblegateway.com. I can read any translation of any passage, or I can just go totally topical. It's amazing.

I ate awesome. I ate more veggies today than I have in the past week combined, and I discovered roasted pepper hummus. Yum.

I got a great start on some beautiful pinch-pleat curtains for my breakfast area. As usual, it's taking longer than I estimated, but what else is new? But it's okay because I get to use my MIL's sewing machine, which is practically a robot. It does everything. If it could just make dinner, it would complete me.

The floor did not get vacuumed, mostly because I'm still sewing, and it seems kind of pointless.

I never did work out. I chose to watch The Office and 30 Rock instead. I hear you can exercise while you watch TV, but I've never actually done it (unless you count the cardio-theater at the gym, where I mostly torture myself by watching Fox News). I did, however, fold those two loads of laundry.

I don't have the energy to say anything brilliant tonight. I'm really, really tired. But I do want to share my fave new single line from a song courtesy of the dudes in Switchfoot: "...every breath is a second chance." I have no idea what the rest of the song is about, but that one line caught my attention even through Max screaming for a drink and Brady whining that he didn't get a piece of candy, so I'm thinking God wanted me to hear it.

Too often, I have a bad moment early in the day, so I just give up on the day because it's already ruined. I convince myself that I might as well put off any REAL change until tomorrow. But this one little line made me take stock and re-evaluate that sorry strategy. Because it hasn't been working so well for me anyway. And because my God is the God of second chances, and he hands them out all day long, not just in the morning.