Today

Today: The present day; this day.

I'm not sure what it is about the present that I find so distasteful. I surely expend a great deal of energy avoiding it.

I prefer living out in the future, walking a bleak, desolate landscape where wild animals and vicious assassins lurk. Bad things are going to happen. Or I whipsaw backwards into the past, where I can indulge delicious regrets and inspect burned bridges. Bad things happened.

God isn't interested at all in helping me cope with imagined disasters. God doesn't time travel to 1972 or 1981. God is live, on the other end of the phone. He's tech support and He's at his desk. I'm on my own when I move out of today. I am given the tools to handle whatever will come my way and I have a Program to help me clean up past messes.

I have plenty to eat, clean water to drink, and a warm, safe, dry place to sleep at night. Those are my needs and they're being met. I am blessed in this world of 6 billion people to have those things -- many of my fellows aren't so lucky. Everything else falls into the category of wants, or desires. And a close analysis shows that I have a lot of that stuff as well.