God is now. God is this moment. God is reality. If ever there was anything we can count on to always be present it is God. Our minds wander into the future or hang out in the past, but our spirit is always present in the moment. When I am experiencing anxiety it is often because my mind is somewhere in the future. When I am experiencing remorse it is often because my mind is somewhere in the past. At all of those times, God is with me in the present. My body is always in the present as it cannot be physically anywhere else than it already is. I have begun to use my body as a tool to presence me in the moment. Now when my head starts going to someplace other than where I can bring myself back by paying attention to my breath. Most mindful practices start with a focus on the breath because it brings us to the present moment. You cannot be breathing in the air of the future and the breath of the past has already been and gone. Sometimes I experience sensations in my body and because of a previous experience my mind will make it mean that I am somewhere that I am not. My body isn’t doing anything other than naturally responding, but my thinking goes somewhere other than the immediate moment. As an incest survivor, I spent a large portion of my life blaming my body for doing what a body does. My healing work is about separating the story of the original circumstance of bodily sensations from the immediate ones that I experience today. I cannot do this alone. I need the power of the Present One, the Immediate One, and the Real One. By having the courage to stay in the immediacy of the moment that I really am present in, I can with God’s help begin to create a new story around some familiar sensations. My prayer for us today is that we notice when we are taken out of the immediate moment and ask God for the courage to return to the now. Make it a great one! Peace, Colleen
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