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Starkman
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| Posted 1/21/2003 6:19 AM (GMT -6) |   | "Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble" (MT 6:34 NKJV).
Hmm!
Consider (those of you who adhere to the open view) the moment. Just consider the moment. This very moment you are in right now. Sound mundane, does it? Well, I don't believe it is.
I don't see how anyone can look back at yesterday and think that all of it--every last word, action and thought--was destined to happen and could be no other way. For that matter, I think just looking back to twenty minutes ago is equally intriguing; did I have to raise my voice to my wife? Did I absolutely have to have that bad thought? Even more so, did I have to give that person only twenty dollars? Could I not have given them more or less?
Yesterday is history, a history I believe that could have been both different and could have created something different today were I to have lived yesterday differently. What I did yesterday has a direct bearing on what I'm doing now, where I'm at, and even what I'll be able to do today and, perhaps, for the rest of my life. Suppose that yesterday I didn't pay attention to my driving and crashed my car but lived. That would reflect today what I'm able to do today. It would affect more than that; it would affect everyone around me and who knows how many unknown folk also.
As I think about this, I'm awed by both the power and responsibility I wield. The power and responsibility we all wield. And it all revolves aound the moment. This very moment. No other.
When Jesus told us not to worry about tomorrow, the mistake we might make is to think that He was telling us to only worry about today: "sufficient for the day..." He wasn't. We aren't any more able to effect change this day by worring about it then we are able to effect change tomorrow by worring about it. But what about this moment, this very moment I am in right now? Can I effect change this very moment? And do I have to worry about this very moment to effect change?
As I'm writing, I am in complete command to press any letter key I wish (well, I seem to hit that Caps key when I least wish to). I don't have to worry about what keys I press; I merely press them, and the screen displays what I've pressed. That quickly. History settled. Change effected. Mayne not much, but some nonetheless. And I'll look back on this post tomorrow (or maybe even just a few minutes after it's posted) and wonder about it; could I have written this differently, better (without the Caps key)? Should I have written it at all? Am I glad I wrote it? How, if in any way, will it affect others?
I can be concerned about what I have already done, but I'm not to worry about what I will do or what will be done; tomorrow will take care of itself. But the moment is mine to make of something right now. It is yours to make of something. Right now. We have that kind of awesome power and responsibility: to decide if we will love or hate in this, our very own moment; to give or not to give this moment; to learn or not to learn this moment; to help, to hurt, to fix, to heal, to yell, to harm . . . in every single given moment that is ours. The now. Right now. This moment; the only moment of which we need concern ourselves. And every moment that we are given--both this moment and all, if any, that will follow--will, whether we wish it or not, effect change of some sort for the moment that follows our choices in this very moment, just as the keys I depress are immediately displayed on the screen. Others may not see them until tomorrow, but they are there now; this moment. Unique to the moment is that some decisions I can take back (the keys I've pressed, for instance), but some things, if not most, I cannot take back, such as the words I speak to another. They are now more than the moment; they are history unalterable.
What power and responsibility we wield this very moment.
Live not for today, but live for the moment. Worry not about tomorrow or even today; concern yourself only with your moment. This moment. The only moment you know for sure you have, because it is all that you are able to experience at this time.
So live with your moment by loving, giving, healing, and sharing your heart with and for others, for God, and for yourself. Make the difference; let this very moment you have count for all history. Both yours and my mine.
Starkman
Edited by - Starkman on 01/21/2003 11:24:36 AM | | Back to Top | | |
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Tom
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| Posted 1/22/2003 1:18 AM (GMT -6) | | What an incredible and awesome privilenge to put our hand in God's and partner in filfilling his purposes.
Tom
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trosie
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Date Joined Jul 2001
Total Posts : 550
| Posted 1/22/2003 3:30 AM (GMT -6) | | Starkman, I love how you think! 
Here's a few quotes for you ( I'm not sure who said them)
"TODAY IS THE TOMORROW THAT YOU WORRIED ABOUT YESTERDAY."
"ONE DAY AT A TIME, SWEET JESUS."
"LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH AND LET IT BEGIN WITH ME ... TO TAKE EACH MOMENT, AND LIVE EACH MOMENT, IN PEACE ETERNALLY. LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH AND LET IT BEGIN WITH ME."
I think all the people who wrote those quotes felt similarly to you. Thank you for your open reflection!
trosie
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might-be-don
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Total Posts : 830
| Posted 1/22/2003 4:06 AM (GMT -6) | | "Our minds are often permeated
by memories of the past
or worries about the future.
What gets missed is the present ~
and right there in the moment
is the doorway into timelessness. "
Ram Dass
Peace and love, don
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