{"id":97,"date":"2007-09-28T06:20:16","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T13:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:19:42","slug":"to-be-good-and-happy-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2007\/09\/to-be-good-and-happy-today\/","title":{"rendered":"to be good and happy today"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today”. –Sydney Smith<\/p>\n

I woke up this morning feeling overwhelmingly thankful…for everything – for\u00a0the laughter, the joy, the beauty of my days as well as for the challenges, sorrows and disappointments – for everything!\u00a0 It is all part of my life\u00a0and I’m grateful for all of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If life were one smooth, flat\u00a0ride the view would be lousy – and boring!!\u00a0 It takes a couple of trips to the valley floor to really appreciate the climb up and the beauty of the grand mountain view.\u00a0 And it is on those tumbles down that we often learn who we are, what we are made of, our strengths and weaknesses – and what we don’t want or who we don’t want to be which helps to clarify what we DO want.<\/p>\n

A favorite mystery series I read features Amelia Peabody Emerson, wife of a famous Egyptologist and no slouch herself in that department.\u00a0 It is a fun romp of the Errol Flynn sort with the good guys always coming out on top.\u00a0 Amelia’s catch line when things are on the challenging side is biblical:\u00a0 the last line of Matthew\u00a0\u00a06:34: “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof” (King James Version).\u00a0 The more current translation is “Each day has enough trouble of it’s own”\u00a0 – but the first lines are “Do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself”.\u00a0 Sometimes, when I find myself distracted by fretting about some future worry I picture Amelia and say the words and laugh – because, it is true and – “our business is to be good and happy today”!<\/p>\n

And for today’s “illustration” – this photo is Karl on the right and Sparky,\u00a0an 11 month old Border Collie belonging to Bob and Inez Love.\u00a0 Bob logged my property this spring and Sparky was normally along.\u00a0 Sparky and Karl bonded immediately and played, wrestled, chased and napped together.\u00a0 I don’t claim to know what really goes on in their little doggie brains but it seems pretty clear that they do not worry about any tomorrows.<\/p>\n

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“We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today”. –Sydney Smith I woke up this morning feeling overwhelmingly thankful…for everything – for\u00a0the laughter, the joy, the beauty of my days as well as for the challenges, sorrows and disappointments – for everything!\u00a0 It is all part of my life\u00a0and I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-pets","category-spirituality"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22496,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/22496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}