Just for today, throw away your absolutes, lay down your pet peeves, leave behind your air of despair. Today, fill your being with the comfort of compromise, the balm of forgiveness, the healing of hope. Open the gift we all have been given and be glad—if just for today.

Carol Reeves is loving the fun and challenge of writing 50 word stories. Her first novel, All The Little Miracles, was published this year.