AUGUST 10
I have come to believe in the “Sacrament of the Moment,”
which presupposes trust in the ultimate goodness of my
creator.
—RUTH CASEYWe dwell so much on the past when we are grieving—the
immediate past—the occasion of death itself, and then the
happier days when our loved one was with us in all his or
her strength.
And then we dwell on the future—the deprivation it will
be to face those years without our loved one.
But the present moment is all any of us have—even this
present moment, when you are reading these words.
As you have chosen this moment to read these words,
choose another moment and live in its intensity alone,
without swerving into either the past or the future. You may
be surprised at how much lighter you feel, how much freer
to appreciate the life that is going on around you.
To make such a choice is to acknowledge your own inab-
ility to repeat the past or to control the future. It is also a
gesture of trust in a Creator in whose hands are all times
and all places.
This moment is unique in all of my life and I will appreciate it for
itself.