DAY 32...Three Questions: Time
"The time is always right, to do what's right." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Yesterday we looked back at the past 31 days. It was good thing to do, because it helps encourage us, but the past is not the most important moment. According to Fr. Antony Hughes, the parish priest at St. Mary's Antiochian Orthodox Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, there are three questions that are crucial to our lives. Three questions we must ask and that must be answered properly.
The first question is, "When is the most important time?"
If you think about it, its a super simple question. Yesterday is over, tomorrow hasn't happened yet, only what you do right now really matters. The answer to this question is, "The moment you're in." Nothing you've done in the past can be changed and nothing in the future can be touched except by the moments we make presently.
Yesterday we looked back at the past 31 days. It was good thing to do, because it helps encourage us, but the past is not the most important moment. According to Fr. Antony Hughes, the parish priest at St. Mary's Antiochian Orthodox Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, there are three questions that are crucial to our lives. Three questions we must ask and that must be answered properly.
The first question is, "When is the most important time?"
If you think about it, its a super simple question. Yesterday is over, tomorrow hasn't happened yet, only what you do right now really matters. The answer to this question is, "The moment you're in." Nothing you've done in the past can be changed and nothing in the future can be touched except by the moments we make presently.
Do you feel bad about the past? Are you worried about the future? You will not find peace in the past or future. Find peace in the present moment.
In the wise words of Jason Mraz,
"I will not waste my days
Making up all kinds of ways
To worry about all the things
That will not happen to me"
and
"I'm letting myself off the hook for things I've done
I let my past go past
And now I'm having more fun
I'm letting go of the thoughts
That do not make me strong"
Don't confuse this "Live in the Moment" attitude with, "Don't think about the future" or "YOLO," This moment helps define the future, but you can only work within this moment. Find courage in this moment to do the right thing and peace will come.
To be continued...
In the wise words of Jason Mraz,
"I will not waste my days
Making up all kinds of ways
To worry about all the things
That will not happen to me"
and
"I'm letting myself off the hook for things I've done
I let my past go past
And now I'm having more fun
I'm letting go of the thoughts
That do not make me strong"
Don't confuse this "Live in the Moment" attitude with, "Don't think about the future" or "YOLO," This moment helps define the future, but you can only work within this moment. Find courage in this moment to do the right thing and peace will come.
To be continued...
Today's Instructions:
A. Pray for the day, for friends, for family, for enemies. Thanksgiving, Requests, Praise.
B. In the Fortify Program, Update the battle tracker. Go to Week 5. Check out, "Urge Surfing" and "Thinking About Thinking"
C. Go to the daily readings and read today's Scripture.
D. Journal the following: 1. What are thinking about right now? 2. What are some things that prevent you from living in the moment? 3. How can you change those things?
Today's Tips: When the urges come get up. Stop. Breathe. Pray. Search out a picture of yourself when you were younger, either as a kid or even a few years ago. Think about what qualities you had then that you liked and what qualities you've grown in that are now better.
God give you strength. See you tomorrow.
Don't ever come back to this page to start over. This is the launching pad. You've already begun, even if you fall.
If you want to review this page, please do, but do not come back here to start over.