Here I am.
At the beginning of another day.
Another small piece of time that has never happened before.
This morning,
I resist the temptation to decide too quickly what kind of day this will be.
I leave some room for surprise,
Because so much of life arrives unannounced.
The conversation we never expected.
The idea that appears while doing something ordinary.
The person who says exactly the right sentence without knowing how much we needed to hear it.
A moment of courage that seems to come from somewhere deeper than thought.
So today,
Let something beautiful happen.
And give me the intelligence to recognize it.
Because beauty rarely announces itself as beauty.
Sometimes it arrives disguised as interruption.
Sometimes as a change of plan.
Sometimes the beautiful thing is simply seeing differently what was already there.
Let me remember this today.
I will experience only a tiny fraction of everything happening around me.
My attention will select a few fragments from an almost infinite world and call those fragments reality.
So let my attention choose well.
Today,
Let something beautiful happen.
Perhaps through another person.
Perhaps through chance.
Perhaps through my own hands.
And if today brings something wonderful.
Let me actually be there when it happens.
Not already converting the moment into a memory,
A plan,
A story.
Let me inhabit it.
Let something beautiful happen today.
A laugh that escapes unexpectedly.
A message arriving at the right moment.
Sunlight crossing a wall.
A problem becoming simpler.
An old memory returning without sadness.
A new possibility appearing quietly at the edge of an ordinary conversation.
Or perhaps the beautiful thing today will be something I create for someone else.
Let me be generous enough for that possibility too.
May someone feel lighter because I was here.
May someone feel seen.
May something become slightly better.
Because my life touched it.
And tonight.
When this day has become irreversible.
When every choice has been made.
Let me look back and realize.
Something beautiful did happen.
Whatever form it takes.
Let me recognize it.
Let me receive it.
Let me participate in it.
And let me become,
In some small and unmistakably human way,
One of the beautiful things that happens today.
Mmm.
You
