“Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles and perhaps more interesting because of them.”

For me, back to school is always a stressful time – I find myself fast forwarding my children’s lives to the future years where things get more complicated – relationships, the pressure of high school, drugs, sex, alcohol, moving away to college, friends, no friends, the wrong friends…. I spend precious time not breathing with worries that haven’t yet arrived and maybe never will. I let them occupy my space and take up my air. And in this chaos I create in my own head, I miss the obviousness of the moment – life is good. This minute, this hour, this day…it is good. May you find the goodness in this day.