In "Travelling Light" Daniel O'Leary reminds us
how "Three hundred years ago, Jean Pierre de Caussade SJ reminded his
students that no moment is trivial since every moment contains 'a divine
kingdom and heavenly sustenance' within it." It is all too easy to get
unduly caught up in the past. Of course
the past matters. We should honour
it. We should learn from it. It is also tempting to worry too much about
the future. We wonder what might happen,
and that is not surprising. It is
sensible to make appropriate plans for the future.
However, it is always the case that we are in the
present. We ought to make the most of
that. I fear that too often the past
and/or the future get in your way and we just don't do as we should.
Sometimes, in particular, we are too
impatient and we really need to learn that God's picture is bigger than ours -
and that we are called to live in God's present for us.
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