Are you living in the past, present or future?
Many of us are burdened, if
not caught up with our past. More than the consequences of our past actions, we
let the memory of the past drag us down. We like to hit the rewind button in
our memory and lick the wounds of long ago. We open up one painful memory and
then a sudden flood of other unpleasant memories comes rushing in. And downward
spiral we go.
We spend most of our time
entertaining bitterness, pains and disappointments of yesterday. We even spend
countless hours just imagining the day we will get our vindication or even
vengeance from past hurts. As we waste our time dwelling in our past, our
present is wasted as well. And the sad thing is that our today is our
tomorrow’s yesterday. Wasting the present now is just adding up to our wasted
past. And the vicious cycle continues.
Many of us are also so
anxious about our future. While our bodies reside in the present moment, our
mind has time traveled years from now. We spend much time being worried and
gloomy to things that have not happened yet, we are so absorbed in the “What
Ifs”
Our present also affects our
future very much, our actions today will greatly affect our future, good or
bad. To waste our time today being anxious about tomorrow is to waste the
opportunity to improve our tomorrow.
Therefore do not worry about
tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of
its own. Mt 6:34.
To live life is to live in
the present moment. The past is dead and the future is yet unborn. The key to
healing the past and having a hopeful future lies to what we will decide to do
now. Now is the only thing we’ve really got. If we waste the present moment
dwelling in the past or being anxious about the future, we end up loosing
everything.
The past belongs to God’s
mercy, the future to His Providence and the present to His Love. To live in the
present moment is to accept and experience God’s love here and now.
Today is your tomorrow’s
past. The way you live today will make your tomorrow better or bitter. Today is
where you are. Choose to bloom!
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