The Great Thing

The world is changed forever because you are in it.
It certainly doesn't feel that way at the moment. Is it laziness or overwork or summer heat that leaves me wishing I could just skip Monday and go straight to Saturday? Self discipline kicks in, and I pour another cup of coffee and get moving.
The calendar is not cooperating again because I see another month is marching past while I strive to accomplish that Great Thing which seems to elude me today.
Perhaps the Great Thing happened yesterday and I missed it. Perhaps it was that charming phone call with a loved one where I listened without judgment. Maybe it was the plants I trimmed in the front yard that made the front of our home more pleasing to our neighbor's eye— as John Keats said, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
The world is changed forever because you are in it.