Just For Today    submitted by Courtney Kasmiskie
                         
Name: Courtney Kasmiskie
E-mail: Chewlsmum@aol.com

This is a poem Barbara Manthei wanted to share with her friends and family before she left this world.~~~

Just for today - I will try to live through this day only, not tackling my whole life problem at once. I can do something at this moment that would appall me if I felt that I had to keepit up for a lifetime.
Just for today - I shall be happy. This assumes that happiness comes fromwithin; it is not a matter of externals and accidental circumstances. Therefore, I shall be happy.
Just for today - I will try to adjust myself to what is - and not force everything to adjust to my own desires. I will accept my family, my friends, my business, my circumstances as they come.
Just for today - I will take care of my physical health; I will exercise my mind; I willread something spirtual.
Just for today - I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out - if anyone knows of it, it will not count. I shall do at least one thing I dont want to do, and i will perform some small act of love for my neighbor.
Just for today - I will try to go out of my way to be kind to someone I meet; I will be   agreeable; I will look as well as I can, dress becomingly, talk low; act courteously, criticize not one bit, not find fault with anything, and not try to improve   or regulate anybody expect myself.
Just for today - I will have a program. I may not follow it exactly, but I  will have it. I will save myself from two pests - hurry and indecision.
Just for today - I will stop saying "If I had time"  I never will "find time" for anything . If I want time, I must take it.
Just for today - I will have a quit time of meditation wherein I shall think of God as I understand Him,  and of my neighbor. I shall relax and seek truth.
Just for today - I shall be unafraid. Particularly, I shall be unafraid to be happy, to enjoy what is good, what is beautiful,and what is lovely in life.
Just for today - I will accept myself and live to the best of my ability.
Just for today - I choose to believe that I can live this one day.
                                 The choice is mine.

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