Like No Other Day

This day is unique in all of history, enjoy it.

Photo by Paul W. Marlow ©1981

We had color photography back when I turned 21 years old. It just so happens my younger brother was taking a photography class and had to take and print a photograph as an assignment. He could only develop black and white film: voilà, this photo.

Pictured with me is my lovely finacé now wife.

On the anniversary of that photo, I share a thought about each day in our lives from Frederick Buechner.

“In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again.

Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will proceed until the hour of your death.

If you were aware of how precious today is, you could hardly live through it. Unless you are aware of how precious it is, you can hardly be said to be living at all.”

Frederick Buechner

As Buechner points out, birthdays are special, no more so than the miraculous day we experience anew every day.

Enjoy your miraculous day.