dailydatewithgod

The reason the idea of being in the moment is so powerful is that it is the only place we actually are.  We think because we can ruminate on the past and envision the future that it gives us some kind of hold on it.  But the reality we cannot reach past the horizon of the day or moment we are in.  It is tempting to ride the mind’s rollercoaster to the past or future especially when the moment we are in is one we would rather not be in.  On my daily dates with God, I get the opportunity to practice being where I am in the moment.  God encourages us to cultivate our attunement to the now because it is the one place where we can meet the truth of God and of who we are at our core.  We get anxious about the future or the past and what happened and lose sight of the fact that those horizons are either no longer here or outside our purview.  If we want to do something to adjust what happened in the past or set a different course for the future, it will happen within the horizon we are in now. We cannot reach back and redo something, although time travel has always fascinated me and I would jump at the chance. The now is the one space we can be physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and energetically at the same time.   With all our faculties right here, right now, we can create.  We are most empowered in the now moment.  So often we get spun up into where our mind can and does go that we spread ourselves too thin.  We do not have the energetic capacity to face what is right now because we are playing outside the horizon of our very being.  The good news about the now moment is if it is one would rather not be in, we need to take a beat and it will pass.  Not every now moment is going to be all good or all bad, and none will last.  Taking time to absorb the beauty of all that lies within the horizon of now is a gift we may not want to miss.