I’ll be back next week with more in the color series, but in the meantime I want to share a video and a link with you.

For my friends that are deaf, I’ve attempted a transcript of the video. Any mistakes are mine. I’ve submitted it to Project readOn where it will hopefully be captioned. In the meantime, I hope the transcript helps.

Transcript:

You think this is just another day in your life.

It’s not just another day. It’s the one day that is given to you today.

It’s given to you. It’s a gift.

It’s the only gift that you have right now. And the only appropriate response is gratefulness.

If you do nothing else but to cultivate that response, to the great gift that this unique day is, if you learn to respond as if it were the first day in your life, and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.

Begin by opening your eyes and be surprised that you have eyes you can open.

That incredible array of colors that is constantly offered to us for pure enjoyment.

Look at the sky. We so rarely look at the sky. We so rarely note how different it is from moment to moment, with clouds coming and going.

We just think of the weather. Even of the weather we don’t think of all the many nuances of weather. We just think of good weather and bad weather.

This day right now, this unique weather, may be a kind that will never exactly in that form come again.

The formation of clouds in the sky will never be the same that it is right now.

Open your eyes. Look at that.

Look at the faces of people you may meet.

Each one has an incredible story behind their face, a story that you could never fully fathom. Not only their own story, but the story of their ancestors.

We all go back so far.

And in this place and moment, in this day, all the people you meet, all that life from generations and from so many places all over the world, flows together and meets you here like a live-giving water if you’d only open your heart and drink.

Open your heart to the incredible gifts that civilization gives to us. You flip a switch and there is electric light. You turn a faucet and there is warm water and cool water. And drinkable water, a gift that millions and millions in the world will never experience.

And these are just a few of an enormous number of gifts to which we can open our heart. And so I am wishing that you will open your heart to all these blessings and let them flow through you, that everyone you will meet on the street will be blessed by you.

Blessed by your eyes.

By your smile.

By your touch.

Just by your presence.

Let the gratefulness overflow into blessing all around you.

Then it will really be a good day.

If you have the time, visit Gratefulness.org and have a look around. I enjoy Word for the Day and found the Labyrinth to be a calming time-out in the middle of the day.