dailydatewithgod

I am not sure if it is a common human dilemma but the idea that I know tomorrow is going to come seems to pervade my experience.  Maybe it was listening to the “Sun will come out tomorrow” from Annie too many times as a kid, but I realize that I don’t know about tomorrow.  All I can focus on is today.  Yet, I often find myself in the trap of what is to come, as if I have a crystal ball.  I always say that I could wake up tomorrow and get hit by a truck for all I know so, there is no point in focusing on what might or might not happen tomorrow or next week or next year.  Today is the only day I have and when I recognize that God is now and today, life is much easier to handle.  The reality of my experience is that most of what I feared about the future has come and gone and none of it was as bad as I thought it might be.  But how much precious time and energy of the day did I lose to focus on the future or the past?  For me, at the end of the day when my head hits the pillow if I was able to be as present as possible in my day, in the moment I did well.  If I was meant to be in tomorrow or yesterday, I would be.  My mind likes to escape the moment because it is uncomfortable and one of the ways it does that is to think about tomorrow or yesterday.  I heard a great line once, “If I have one foot in tomorrow and one foot in yesterday then I am pissing on today.”  Quite graphic but I got the point.  God gives me whatever I need to handle today, this moment.  Whatever I am cycling through in my thinking, feeling, being needs all my energy and focus. Even if I am thinking I don’t want to be right here, right now, it is usually because I feel like it’s too much.  This is a dead giveaway that I am not including God.  When I let go and realize that God is with me, God has got me, and together we can do what I could never do alone, then I can breathe–in and out, in and out, and so it goes.  My prayer for us today is that we surrender to the cycle of life that we are experiencing today and get in touch with how we are being cared for by our creator through this very moment.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen