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Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow

Tis the season for some folks to enjoy their Christmas gifts, those blessed to receive them. Tis the season for others to return their gifts for something they wanted more or a different size. (I purposefully avoided the stores yesterday!)

I love the gifts that don’t need returned to the store:
– Seeing all my family on one day (one via Skype video call to South Korea).
– Hugs and laughter!
– Loving others and being loved unconditionally.
– Remembering again that the most important things in life aren’t things.
– Making family memories.
– The quiet peace at the end of the day when you and God both say, “This was good. let’s do it again!”

It is said:
“Yesterday is the past – learn from it.
Tomorrow is the future – prepare for it.
Today is the present – enjoy this gift from God.”

We are advised to not dwell in the past, but it’s good and profitable to visit it long enough to glean important lessons learned. One of the lessons I’ve learned (again) this past year is how futile it is to spend too much time preparing for the future since we have no real control of it and it changes so drastically. Still, it seems prudent to invest in the future, particularly by building and exercising your faith today. How in the world would we have drawn on our faith to sustain us through this first year with Leukemia if we had not made a great many faith ‘deposits’ when life was less perilous?!

What is the gift of today?

It is being fully awake and aware that time marches on and waits for no one. It is being aware of who God is and who we are in his sight. It is an adventure to be lived, a treasure hunt for the blessings God intends for you to discover and enjoy and share with others. Today is intended to be unwrapped and enjoyed. It is a day for giving thanks, remembering the ways you have been gifted in the past. It is a day for putting an end to things that hurt you and others! It is a day for forgiving. Today is for giving up trying to control the future or worry about it and to give up things from the past that enslave you. It is a fresh opportunity to enjoy God’s presence.

Today is a gift. Enjoy it fully.

“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:33-34