Greetings Dear Reader,
We all exercise our past and future dependence. The bulbs of the past and future clamor for our attention and insist that they hold the keys to life and happiness. They lie.
Our past hurts and failures wish to speak to us and hold our attention. They want us to lose courage and morale because we have failed in the past. Our lesser natures wish us to waste our lives wallowing in self-pity and misery. Our mind tells us that we will fail again. It wishes us to see our value as diminished due to the short-comings or ourselves and others.
The past also wishes for us to rest on our past successes. It wants to rest on our laurels but they become a snare that entangles us in pride and complacency. We watch our success recede into the distant past whilst missing opportunities of the moment. Both the successes and losses of the past are distractions from what can be had in the moment. It is the wrong kind of satisfaction. It is also damaging and can breed depression and bitterness.
The future is similar. It taunts us to chase the wrong things or to delay action. It pushes us to become more than we are but for wrong reasons sometimes. Planning and growth are not wrong. The wrong comes when we fill the future with our hopes and expectations.
Here is the process where we find the danger. Someone we love wrongs us. The one in error apologizes and we forgive. This is good. Then he or she promises not to do it again. We accept this as well. We add to our present forgiveness future expectation. We put a burden in place for both parties to carry. We hold expectations out as a rod and a yoke. It is a weapon and a harness.
The person fails again and instead of forgiveness in the moment, we deliver a reminder of the promise he or she made. We demand satisfaction of our expectation. It is right for someone to keep his or her promise. It is wrong for us to withhold love and immediate forgiveness to demand what we expect. This is only one example.
What we need to understand and live is this; If we use the past or the future to determine our love and life in the moment, we are missing the point. Time is a construct of the one we follow. It is not what governs him or us. It is the place we are stranded until we reach the clearing at the end of the path. It is the vast barren wilderness where all we have is each other and the opportunity to love as we journey home.
I submit that living and loving at the moment is contrary to almost everything our lesser natures will embrace. We want our past to be our glory and our future to be bright and filled with promise. What we fail to grasp is that this can only happen if we learn from the past and build our futures by embracing every moment with love and faith.
It is each moment that holds light and life. It is you and I loving the Father and each other in the pinch that holds all promise of a future that matters. It is that same act that mitigates the pain and horror of the past.
Someone told me recently that he did not know where to begin to build our relationship with someone who loves him but has many wrongs to in his past. The answer is the same in any situation. We must begin with love. If love is the barrier-crushing power that we carry, then it is al the more powerful if we renew it every moment. It is mightier than we can imagine. It is, after all, what killed the Son of God and resurrected him.
Past hurts and sin, future expectations and consideration are all distractions from loving in the moment. How can I show you love in this moment, Dear Reader? We have a long way to go that we can fill with moments of loving each other and by doing so, evidencing our love for the Father. The past and the future find their nexus in the pinch of the hourglass. That is the place where we can meet and seek the one who loves us both. That is where we can learn to better love each other.
As I turn the corner to Holy Week, I ask that you join me in this: I will acknowledge my failures and move on from them. I ask you to do the same but without expecting you to do so. I am going to do what it takes to love Christ and by that love you in each moment Dear Reader. If you do the same there will be great beauty. If you do not, at least you will have the company of someone who loves you.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”
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