We cannot just
jump into to-
morrow without
working hard for
today. How we
encounter today will determine our
tomorrow. If we receive today with
courage and hope, tomorrow will yield
numerous blessings, hope, swimming
in the pool of happiness. Our smiles
become infectious to others. Others
will question themselves why their faces
are like the ten days rain. We begin to
change perception of ourselves, that if
that man can put wonderful smiles on
his face why not me.
Smiles do a lot on people. Smiles
can be cosmetic but we do not spend
a lot of time defining different smiles
but smiles that can question me and
ask me to forge ahead in life without
being a slave to my negative thoughts.
The smile I see on people’s face can
be a great lesson for me in spite of
my condition. It can revitalize me; it
can point out to me that tomorrow is
pregnant with meaning and it can hatch
good news and good luck for me. It can
reveal an angel of God who will console
me and bring someone who can bright-
en my tomorrow. All I know is that if
I stand firmly on today’s hardship, en-
dure them with hope, with determina-
tion to enter tomorrow, your blessings
come through. Every hard work has its
blessings, its joys and feelings of ’ I have
made it”, a feeling that should be shared
with all especially with those who sit
down blaming the day they were born.
One must start doing something and
stop sitting on the arm chair of sorrows
and thoughts of bleak tomorrow that is
not yet in reality.
Your today will help to bring tomor-
row to reality. Tomorrow cannot be a
fantasy. Life is like a journey. As you
explore all the avenues of your today,
you will see a divine spark, a luminous
light pointing to you in one direc-
tion showing you how your pregnant
tomorrow will eliminate your life for
a productive tomorrow that started
today. Your hard work during the day,
the confidence you have; trust in God
and the negative environment you have
conquered help to shape the landscape
of your life. As you did not allow the
obstacles of today prevent you from
looming high in hope, your tomorrow
smiles at you. When tomorrow’s smiles
invite you at the gate, you have to use
the lesson of yesterday to grab all the
blessings. It does not mean that you will
get everything on the platter of gold.
You have to do all that is required to get
what you want. As you enter tomor-
row, shaped by your former today,
you don’t expect pie from heaven; you
don’t abandon your tools of yesterday
for tomorrow. You shall work hard to
accomplish your desired goal. The effort
of today will diminish or eliminate
obstacles that will prevent you from
enjoying tomorrow. So, life is a struggle
and how you struggle will determine
your tomorrow.
When tomorrow comes it will not
come to us as a surprise because we
have prepared for it. We welcome it
because, we have prepared for it. Pre-
paring for tomorrow gives us courage
and hope to welcome it when tomorrow
comes. This is a sign that we know what
life is all about, that our preparation
for every day brings us success. An
unprepared today leads to an unpre-
pared tomorrow and leads to numerous
complains when tomorrow comes.
When we are dysfunctional our broken-
ness carries us nowhere, there is no way
to think correctly in a healthy manner
to plan for tomorrow so our tomorrow
becomes bleak. When you effectively
take care of today, tomorrow becomes
easy. When you don’t do so, but drags
today’s problems to tomorrow, life
becomes burdensome, frustrations and
full of hang-ups. Whom do you blame?
Work well today for a harvest of joy
tomorrow.
Very Rev. Msgr Livinus Ukah
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