Thought for the Week: The present

Trish Carn reflects on the blessing of each new day

by Trish Carn 14th October 2016

All presents don’t arrive wrapped in pretty paper tied up with ribbon. Some come stealthily in the night. This is the way my most frequently received presents arrive. I awake and find the gift of a new day, sometimes wrapped in the pink and orangey hues of dawn. At other times it arrives wrapped in the velvet darkness of a star-studded sky. A present of the present.

For me, each new day is a blessing – a tabula rasa – a clean sheet for me to fill.