As I wake up today after a good family Thanksgiving, I am grateful for where I am today. I am not where I thought I would be, but I must be grateful for the abundance that is provided for me. Yesterday before our meal I shared the prayer below with my family, I think that it is a good reminder to remember that God wishes us to live where we are now, not where we have been or where we are going. Tough, but true.
I was regretting the past
and fearing the future.
Suddenly God was speaking.
“My name is ‘I am.'” I waited.
God continued,
“When you live in the past,
with its mistakes and regrets,
it is hard. I am not there.
My name is not ‘I was.’
When you live in the future,
with its problems and fears, it is hard.
I am not there.
My name is not ‘I will be.’
When you live in this moment,
it is not hard. I am here.
My name is ‘I am.'”
— St. Benedict’s Monastary, Snowmass, Colorado
As we enter the hubbub of the holiday season, may you be blessed and grateful. Peace.
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