If you do your journaling in the morning, spend a few minutes writing about the upcoming day. After I do my freewriting, I often close out my journal entry with the question What’s On Tap For Today?
This is what one of my recent entries looked like:
What’s on tap for today?
- Exercise.
- Library Duty. (I volunteer at my son’s school)
- Prep for Scout Meeting. (I had to make a presentation)
- Get my homework done. (I am taking a class)
I wrote this in semi-darkness, still snuggled in my bed under the blankets. Rain was pounding on the roof. I had a coffee cup in one hand and my favorite pen in the other. I sat the journal down and went barefoot into the hallway. Uh-oh. Beneath my feet was wet carpeting. Looked up. Dry ceiling. Hmm.
Went downstairs. Discovered water streaming from the ceiling into the living room. Oh great. Turns out the culprit was a leaky toilet valve on the second floor. While my husband got busy working on the leak, I got busy dealing with the mess.
Most of the water had landed on the floor and on the top of one of my bookcases, but it was spilling over the edge of the bookcase and some of my books were at risk. I grabbed some towels, got the books out of harm’s way, and starting wondering who we could get to fix the drywall. Obviously, what I had thought would be on tap for the day was waaay off base.
But something good did come of the mess. When I put the books back on the shelf, I comingled science and religion. I had had a science section and a religion section, and now I have the science books all tangled up with the religion books. Inside my head, good science and God get along just fine. Now they’re that way on my shelf, too. I’m a bit afraid that I am starting to sound like Laura in the “Glass Menagerie” when she talks about arranging her glass animal collection, but this little bit of book-rearranging-serendipity really did make me smile inside 