dailydatewithgod

Mark Twain is attributed as saying, “I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”  I think I prefer Seneca the Younger’s version as he does not mince words when he stated, “There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives.” Regardless of who actually said it best, most would concede its truth. The point is, we human beings do a lot of forecasting in fear not realizing that we are setting ourselves up to be spooked in the present.  Perhaps it is easier to make up bugaboos about the future than courageously sit with the reality that we just don’t know.  On one level our bugaboos are quite humorous.  I have often wondered if my mind intended me to be a screenwriter.  I mean the fear scenes can be so elaborate and pull me in like no others.  When I pause and take a deep breath and reflect on them as bugaboos I can remember to laugh at myself.  In the deeper breath which comes from the laughter, my heart opens up a bit more.  Then the lens of love has a way to connect to my mind and bring me back to the present moment where there are no bugaboos.  I am able to see with a level of gentleness which did not exist before the smile and laughter that I may just be having a moment of uncertainty and my mind decided to conjure up a bugaboo to be helpful.  My eyes open and allow me to recognize my hands and feet being in the physical space I am in.  The bugaboo creates a domino effect to get me back to my center.  Who knew that a bugaboo would be the boo I needed to bump open my heart?