“Today is the only day”

H,

In the pantheon of great examples of things that we have no control over, surely there is one that stands out from the beleaguering pack: tomorrow. We have only today.

This seems simple enough. It is axiomatic when we say, today is all you have time for. Yet, most of our concern is about things in the future and things we cannot yet see. Worry comes from the undefined and can live even higher in our hearts than present concerns.

The whole tension over Mondays is subsumed in the idea of the unexpected week to come. We always stand at the beginning of things worrying about the end.

That is not how living in the light works. We are engaged in great acts of faith every day. We look up to a benevolent creator, one who will fix the nature of the universe back to the original design, who sees and knows and is a lover of every soul. We believe that He is big enough to fill all of reality but intimate enough to listen to our lazy scribblings we call prayer. We can read the catalogue and say we believe all this but still doubt when that faith tells us, today is the only day?

All the grace, strength, joy and love given to us, is for today. Let us live in that and leave the rest for when we need it. Faith is for daily life and not epochs and milestones. It is for the ordinary as well as what we consider extra-ordinary. It is present and palpable and effective and living.

It exists in our moments and all our moments lead up into eternity.