What’s the most important day of your life?
Today–because it’s the only one you’ll ever live in.
I’d say the dominant theme/lesson of 2023 for me so far is living in the moment. Learning to live in the moment, present, right here, right now. Not past regret. Not future planning. NOW.
It relates to what Dallas Willard said, “Hurry is the great enemy of the spiritual life in our time,” as fear-laced hurry (and that’s what makes it “hurry” and not just moving rapidly) takes one out of the moment.
It links to the concept of “flow,” similar to yet broader than what I often experience in writing poetry.
It is connected with my dawning realization that the underlying Master Compulsion in my OCD, within and behind most every other counter-thought or action I take to gain relief from my bursting fearful or guilt-laden thoughts, that which I am tempted to practice nearly every moment of every day, is something that fundamentally moves me OUT of the present moment into a sort of fruitless meta-thought.
It is the next step in maturity (I *think*? This is grasped by faith only) in the task of learning to actually live by the Holy Spirit, in an actual relationship with the Living God more than a quasi-religion trying to figure things out/apply principles from a book. (The book in this case being the Bible. I am quite confident not everyone gets caught in this trap.)
Anyway. This one’s about that. I liked the word “crucial” with its etymological ties to both “cross” and “cross-roads.” Words are so cool.
