THE PRESENT NOW!

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present." - Bil Keane

We do not rest satisfied with the present. We anticipate that future as too slow in coming, as if in order to hasten its course; or we recall the past, to stop its too rapid flight. So imprudent are we that we dream of those times which are no more, and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists.

Margaret Storm Jameson, the English author, once expressed the view that we all spend too much time living in the past, feeling regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done. Even when our minds turn to the future, she said, we spend an inordinate amount of time longing for it or dreading it. "The only way to live," she said, "is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle...Work at your work. Play at your play. Shed your tears. Enjoy your laughter. Now is the time of your life."

Life isn't about to begin, it has begun stop waiting. Mother Teresa said, "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

Have you become stuck in life today, because you lost some money yesterday in a business? Are you unmarried now because you were cheated on then? Whatever the experience, no one stays thirsty today because people drowned in the water yesterday. The past is past, the future can't come until you maximize today...begin now. Greatness awaits in the future!

Let us pray: Father, I receive grace to begin today, in Jesus name.

WISDOM NUGGET: Philipians 3:13
"...one thing I do...is to forget what is behind me and do my best to reach what is ahead." - GNT