Drops of Awesome

Have you ever had one of those weeks when you're so tired of doing school or work (or both) you don't really care whether it's 4 in the morning or 6 in the evening as long as you can find a comfy spot of floor and sleep? Yeah, that was me this week. Finals are coming up and I'm just a little stressed. *cough*

Last Friday I remembered it was Friday...sounds silly, but Friday means it's time to write about what I did to live a better story this week. I thought about it for a few minutes. And a few minutes more. You see, there's this thing called school and it's taking over my life. I couldn't think of any real specific incidences in which I made a conscious effort to live a better story. Blogging can be really dry and boring when you don't have anything to write, so I decided not to write.

Today I thought better of it. Good news is I made a bigger effort over the weekend to live a better story. Sunday night before bed I spent some quality time with my little sister. We did her hair and hung out for a while and talked about anything. It was so simple, but it was a huge deposit on our emotional bank account (for those of you who have read Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People).

So I didn't live the story I wanted to and was even planning to this week. The fact that I couldn't even really think of anything I did to reach out or serve or bring a smile to somebody's face testifies to that. But you know what? There's always today. I took advantage of that great blessing and took a couple more steps down my path to awesome.

Think about it--you're living in an amazing moment right now--amazing because you have the power to choose who you are in that moment. Have you ever read Drops of Awesome from the Daring Young Mom blog? It illustrates this idea of taking each moment as it comes so well! You know, guys, I'm coming to see that there's not really any good reason to be down on ourselves all the time. There's always today.