The day is here upon us. Today is all we've got.
This minute holds eternity, but oh, our minds are fraught;
With thoughts of what we should've done, mistakes of yesterday - Recalling wrongs, reliving deeds and words that went astray.
Or else we go through motions while our thoughts zoom far ahead Of things we do, of meetings hence, of possibilities we dread. We eat our food in hurry. We kiss our loves in haste. We blink at dawn, we glance at moon; there is no time to waste.
Our calendar is crammed with future things we have to do.
We make our list, we see its length. Our day is never through.
And when each year is over, we dismay at all that's passed.
We shake our heads and wonder, "How did time go by so fast?"
We cannot slow the march of time; and yet there is this plan. If we would live in present now, we'd find a peace at hand. Be present, fully present, in each action that we do Stay mindful, fully mindful, of the life around us too.
Let the future be the vision; but THIS moment counts, and how! Eternity is in it. May we learn to live in NOW!