I think about the future all the time
but often at the expense of the present
Blessings innumerable are currently mine,
Though not every one of them is pleasant
Am I missing out on the now, as I sojourn,
Always focused on what is next coming?
Letting this moment pass me by, never to return?
From one thing to the next, always running?
“Love reality” someone recently said.
That is not exhausting oneself, until crashing in bed!
Could frenzy actually be a lack of trust? A sign of fear?
To think that “I must”…for God is not here?
But He is here and near, capably handling it all,
when I run too fast, I’m more likely to fall
Lord, help me in You more to trust,
To do only those things which I really must
May I love reality, the here and the now
Wholeheartedly until that day when I before You I bow.
No matter how hard the present may seem to be
You are at work, through it all, in me!
Help me not toward the future to flee,
But to engage the now, to love reality!
© 2022 Lukas Westevy