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The Time Is Now and The Place Is here

by Irma Green  
5/11/2014 / Short Stories

Time and place; you are in the right place at the right time. The time is now, the place is here! You cannot be free in the future. You can only be free now. How much time would you save if you no longer spent time imagining a different fork in the road in your past? How many times have you said, "if I would have only __________." Hindsight is wasteful and useless. There is no useful purpose for beating yourself up over stuff that can't be changed.
How much energy do you spend worrying about things that are never going to happen? How many times have you stressed out over a future event only to find that something completely out of your awareness changed everything? We can never be completely sure of the future, so there is no point in worrying about it. Doing what we can right now in the moment is what counts. That is where your energy needs to be spent.

Let go of any anger or resentment that keeps you mired in the past, for the past is over. Let go of any empty wishes of fears about what might or might not happen someday, because someday is not a real place.

Now is the time that is real and the time is yours, and with it you can do whatever you choose. Now is when you have immense power over the direction of your life, so use that power wisely and joyfully. To do that, you must get rid of your past; concentrate on the present the NOW!! Live in the now - the today; not yesterday, not tomorrow - TODAY!! The present time (today), is all you have as your "guaranteed time."

There are two days in every week about which we should not worry about; two days which should be kept free from apprehension; "yesterday" with its mistakes and cares, its aches and pains, it's faults and blunders. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed, we cannot erase a single word we spoke yesterday.
The other day we should not worry about is "tomorrow" with its possible adversities, its burdens. Tomorrow is beyond our control. We have no stake in tomorrow, for it is unborn. That only leaves one important day, 'TODAY"!! Anyone can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when we add the burdens of yesterday and tomorrow that we break down. It is not the experiences of today that drives us mad, it is the remorse or bitterness for something which happened yesterday, or the dread of what tomorrow will bring.

Let us journey one day at a time. Stop borrowing the troubles from tomorrow and stop wallowing in yesterday's sorrows!! Live one day at a time, because tomorrow only exists when it becomes today! "TODAY IS THE TOMORROW YOU WORRIED ABOUT YESTERDAY!!"

Rev. K. Irma Green, retired pastor; Lecturer/Bible Teacher, Spiritual Life Coach

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