You have heard before: Make every day Christmas. Make every day your birthday. Make every day a celebration.

Celebration requires no special commemoration. The reason for celebrating today is because life itself is a gift. Open this gift of life today. Tear off the wrappings. Open today wide. It is My gift to you. It lies before you.

No day has ever been before. Each day is incredibly new. You are a new traveler in this day. You are the pioneer discoverer of it. No one has ever traveled this day before. And no one can discover today better than you. Today is yours as much as anyone's. Stir today well.

With what alacrity do you enter today? Or sadness? How you enter your day sets your compass. Not that sadness is bad, but if it is not what you want, why bring it forward to your day? Greet the day as you would like to be greeted. Has not the day come to see you?

A day meets you halfway. It can go only so far. You have to walk up to it. Shake hands with it. Do not hold back. Be forward.

What if today, Christmas Day, or the day after, or any day in the arbitrary year, could be the best day you have ever known, and what if it is only the beginning? What makes your day good? Your receipt of it does. How you receive the day does. It is not the windfalls. Do not wait for windfalls to declare your day good. Do not wait for your day to descend upon you full-blown, as though you are only a receiver of it. You are a receiver and a passer. You are a player, and today is the field you play in. Generate your day, for it is what you leave behind you.

How you start today matters the same as anything else you start. When you start a project halfheartedly, how far can it go?

Rescue today and all days from grumpiness or ennui.

A day is like anything else. If you read a book to find its weaknesses, you will find them. If you meet people and look for their faults, oh, how you will find them. If you are on the watch-out to disagree with what you hear, you will disagree. On the other hand, you can read a book to find something good in it, and you will. You can meet people with the intention to see their good, and you will see it. You can listen to what someone says to find the truth in it, and you will. You will pretty much find what you are looking for. You will see what you look for because you are ready for it.

Of course, there are exceptions, and you have had them.

Yet rather than looking for a road paved in gold, strew gold before you. What you strew before you, will be there. What you strew before you, you will attract more of.

I have said it. You are a magnet. You are not a perfect magnet, but by and large, you will attract to you what your mind's eye sets before you. Therefore, let your mind's eye set blessings before you. This does not mean that all your desires will be fulfilled today. It means you will at least leave some blessedness in your wake.

I charge you to treat every day like a beautiful jewel that you twirl in the sun.

Lift your spirits. Exceed time and space today. There is no other day. The narrow past is illusory. Acquaint yourself with eternity. It is placed right before you in this moment of today. Give birth to today.