bloom where you are planted, plant yourself wherever your feet are

A wise woman told me recently that I have to learn to bloom where I'm planted. Upon asking her where i was planted, she responded that I am the exception and that I have the gift of being able to plant myself wherever i go. I had missed the point. I had thought I was being told to plant myself in a particular place. She was telling me to bloom. She is right. She is wonderful. I love her and I hope she knows how much she has meant to me. Her support and ability to point things out to me about my life. my strengths, my gifts and how they have affected people more than i perhaps would have presumed on my own that they had. But i digress....

I am not my destination
I am not the same person I was yesterday
Nor am I the person I will be tommorow
I am today
I will always be only today
To be true to the journey of myself I must be
a faithful lover to the spirit of my present
Never forsaking it for the hope of tommorow or the memory of yesterday
And in return, today will be the chivalrous companion I have searched for
Tommorow will remain just beyond reach
Yesterday will remain a hard lesson
Today will never let me down