It is the end of the day, the kind of day where you look up at the stars and wonder if other people in other places in the world are looking up and see their constellations and feeling the same way you are feeling.

 Just how are you feeling? Satisfied?  Happy?  Full with the aliveness from the day or perhaps the opposite, tired and beat and drained. Move back in your mind through your day feeling your energy levels- what brought it up, what took it down. Think about the other people you interacted with –who today lifted your spirits and caused you to smile? Who left you feeling like a soggy dishrag, finished? What about your activities during the day- what invigorated you- geared you up, left you excited? What made you wish that you could be anywhere else but here?

What did you do that made you glad- did you show kindness to someone, give someone a word of encouragement, hug a friend?

What did you do that made you wish you could wipe it out and have a do over? Maybe you were short with someone, maybe you were mean. Maybe you passed on a little gossip.

What caught your attention? You noticed something but maybe brushed it off- thought it was unusual or out of context or not very important. Somebody said something that made you think, caught you off guard, and left you wondering. Everything in your day carries meaning, a message for you. Try to remember to notice by staying in the present. Look for the significance. Trust the guideposts in your emotions and in those things that draw your attention.

The stars signal the ending of the day. Sift it through. Today is now over. Let it go.  Set your intention to make tomorrow better than today. Forgive yourself for the things you need to, love yourself for what you did well.

Look up at those stars glittering in eternity and know that today, no matter what happened, you being here made a difference. The ripples from your day eddy on throughout the universe.