Daily Meditation for Tuesday, Dec. 15

Isn’t it amazing how much time and energy we spend on figuring out what the future holds? We try to predict the weather, economic trends, stock market prices, when our glaciers will melt… You name it, we try to guess it. Some people even go to mediums and readers of Tarot cards and palms to see what direction their lives will take.

We don’t have to go far beyond weather forecasts to know how futile guessing the future is. It’s not real until it becomes our present, and that present is often very different than we anticipated.

Think of how different your work and your life at HHH would be if you were only focused on an unknowable future instead of what surrounds you right now.

Think of how much easier it is to deal with what’s calling for your attention at this very moment.

It’s in this very moment that we can take action, that we can solve a problem, that we can help someone else.

It’s in this very moment that God continues to work at opening our hearts to the work of the Spirit.

As we continue to be surrounded by a pandemic. As we continue to anticipate a vaccine. As we worry about what our Christmas may be like, let’s seize the tangible moments of life in this heartbeat, instead of an intangible future.

We are alive in this moment. Our breath is in this moment. And God’s Spirit waits in each breath. Right now.

John Terauds, CPE Intern.