Mark Twain once wrote: “Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on Earth.”

This is what each of us should strive for in this God-ordained life. It does not require anything extra or cost all that you have. It does not bring about the daily emergence of new levels of pain or the forming of lies just to get by.

It requires beginning each day understanding that in the end, or maybe I should say, in the new beginning, there would be an accounting for the things that you have said, or perhaps for reasons known only to you, did not say.

So wake up each day intent on speaking wisdom from your God-given heart. Let no other heart play a part. Begin each meal, spiritual and physical, by thanking God for the sustenance and keeping his part of the deal.

March through the day seeing each being as an as of yet incomplete bit of molding clay, and touch that clay from deep within to help improve its form and to do its part. While doing so, improve the imperfections that undoubtedly exist within your own.

We are each a work of art. A sculpture in progress, placed in this earthly class to bring about not a better you, but a better we. For this, we must each account.