In response to what I've been writing about lately, my sister Monica dedicated the song "Tomorrow" from the musical "Annie" to me on her facebook this morning. Thank God for our 'tomorrows'!! I grew up watching the made for TV movies "Anne of Green Gables" and "Anne of Avonlea," and one of my favorite lines from those movies is: "Tomorrow is always fresh... with no mistakes in it." On that note, I met a girl on set this week who had had a kid when she was 18, and she had just turned 30. She seemed content and claimed how happy she was to finally be in her 30's. She said she had made so many mistakes in her twenties and was certain her thirties would be smooth-sailing due to all her time-acquired wisdom. On the other hand, in the same conversation participated a newly engaged 28 year old miss, and she complained that, although she wants to marry her man, she feels that she didn't live her twenties as wildly as she would have liked. As we argued our different opinions, it was interesting to see two very different perspectives, each person missing what the other apparently had experienced. Later that day, I also spoke with a lovely lady in her fifties. She opened up to me about how years ago she had lost a pregnant sister to a sudden heart attack who was barely in her early twenties. She also lost a son in the same manner. As she continued to tell me her sad story, I observed how so many stories are different, how each person has their own struggles and discontentments, how some obviously have it so much better than others without realizing it, and how some are in the middle of a storm as others are witnessing the sun rise once again in their lives. We all have different walks, to each different cards have been dealt, or perhaps each has played a large role in choosing their own fates; but we all have one thing in common... we all have Tomorrow.
Beautiful Tomorrow... filled with possibility and hope, containing miraculous serendipities and pleasant surprises. Tomorrow I could meet the man I will spend the rest of my life with! Tomorrow I could win the lottery! Tomorrow I could encounter an incredible business opportunity! Tomorrow, another selfish blindfold could fall from my eyes causing me to see truth and further setting me free to live more uninhibitedly. Tomorrow my mother's health could be completely restored. Tomorrow something grand could happen that could make things as they should be, as they were meant to be. So as I do my best to live in the fullness of today with passion and expectancy... for any of these things could still happen this very day... but if they don't yet... I earnestly look forward to what tomorrow can bring :) ...and you should as well ;)
Robert H. Goddard is credited with stating:
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
Keep dreaming dreamers! If you keep believing, doing, and forgiving... your dream IS tomorrow's reality!!!
And now, with "Annie," I confidently affirm....
"The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be sun!
Just thinkin' about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
'Til there's none!
When I'm stuck with a day
That's gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh!
The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I love ya Tomorrow!
You're always
A day
Away!"
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