It's January 13th. How many people have already broken their New Year's resolutions for 2012? Well, in all honestly, I have not. Now, before anyone rushes to call me a bastion of discipline, let me come clean. I have not broken my resolution because I chose not to make one this year.
Sure, I have goals for 2012. I have hopes for 2012. But, more than anything, I simply want to live and experience 2012. Resolutions tend to take us from the present, and force us to either dwell on past failures, or live for future success. I argue that the greatest resolution each of us can make is to be present in the present.
How easy it is to worry about tomorrow! How easy it is to wonder what the outcome of certain situations may be!
How difficult it can be to experience the moment for what it is.....how difficult it can be to recognize that all we have is this breath...and this one.....and this one.....
I have challenged myself to live 2012. To take every moment as the entity of its own that it indeed is.
Thirteen days into the year....I have lived thirteen days. I have not tried to live the next thirteen days, months or years. I have lived thirteen days.
It will be a struggle, and perhaps my greatest temptation will be to allow my mind to wander to the future, or dwell on the past. But I believe God is calling me, and you, to live lives in the present, for it is only in the present that we can recognize God's Presence. We will not find God by looking back, we will not find God by looking forward. We will find God by looking around, and expecting to see God breathing and moving right now, with us, in this breath....and this one....and this one....
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