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Have you ever noticed how easily your mind drifts away from the present moment? One minute we’re replaying something that happened years ago, and the next we’re worrying about something that hasn’t even happened yet. Before we know it, the only place we’re not living is right here, right now. I invite you to slow down for a moment and consider what might be slipping past unnoticed.

There’s a powerful line from the song I’ll Never Love This Way Again, made famous by Dionne Warwick, that says, A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday. That one sentence captures something we all struggle with. We reach backward into yesterday as if we could change it, while at the same time losing the very moment we’ve been given today.

This begs the question, where is our life actually being lived?

Jesus gives us a clear and gentle answer. Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil (Matthew 6:34). Today is where life happens. This moment is where God meets us.

Let me explain. Yesterday is fixed. No amount of regret, guilt, or rethinking can change a single thing that has already happened. And yet, how often do we allow yesterday to define us? We replay conversations, relive failures, and hold onto things that God has already forgiven.

At the same time, tomorrow is uncertain. We plan for it and prepare for it, but we do not control it. Still, we spend so much energy worrying about what might happen, what could go wrong, or how things will turn out.

And in doing so, we quietly miss today.

In writing today’s message, my mind flashed back to a poem I wrote in 2019. If you’d like to read it, click here.

Think about this. The only place we can love someone is today. The only place we can forgive is today. The only place we can encounter Christ is today. God’s grace is not being offered to us in yesterday, and it has not yet been given for tomorrow. God’s grace is being given right now.

This is why so many of us feel stuck. We are trying to live in places where grace is not being offered. We live in yesterday’s regret or tomorrow’s anxiety, instead of today’s opportunity to respond to God.

Scripture reminds us, This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it (Psalm 118:24). Not yesterday, not tomorrow, but this day.

We might ask ourselves, what am I missing right now because my mind is somewhere else? Are we missing the quiet presence of God? Are we missing the chance to truly be present to our spouse, our family, or a friend? Are we missing the small invitations that God places in front of us each day?

The enemy would love nothing more than to keep us trapped in regret or distracted by fear, because both pull us away from the present moment, and the present moment is the only place where transformation actually happens.

DON’T MISS TODAY is a song I wrote that captures the importance of living in the present. Click below to listen and enjoy.

This doesn’t mean we ignore the past or refuse to plan for the future. The past can teach us and the future can guide us, but neither is where we are called to live. We are called to live here, in this moment, where God is already present, already working, already inviting us closer.

So perhaps today we try something simple. When our thoughts drift backward into regret, we gently bring them back. When our thoughts rush forward into worry, we gently bring them back. And we ask, Lord, where are You in this moment?

That is where life is happening. That is where grace is flowing. That is where we become the door through which others can encounter Christ.

Heavenly Father, I so often find myself living anywhere but the present moment, holding onto what I cannot change and worrying about what has not yet come. Help me to trust that Your grace is sufficient for today. Teach me to release my past into Your mercy and my future into Your providence, so that I may fully live in the gift of this moment. Open my eyes to see You here, right now, and give me the courage to respond to Your presence with love. Amen.

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AMDG

AMDG is a Latin abbreviation for “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,” which means “For the Greater Glory of God.”

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Brian is a Christian author and speaker. Brian, a lifelong Catholic, felt his life was forever changed when God spoke to his heart while attending an eight day silent Christian retreat in November of 2011. Soon after that retreat Brian founded 4th Day Letters and Broken Door Ministries. With the God inspired message of mercy and unconditional love that was placed on his heart during that retreat, Brian has been impacting others all over the country and around the world with his weekly letters, his talks, and his all day Christian retreats. In June of 2014, Brian’s life was again impacted in a very dramatic way when his eyesight suddenly became permanently impaired. The initial diagnosis was Multiple Scleroses (MS) but in December of 2019 the diagnosis was corrected to MOG antibody disease, a rare neurological disease. This health challenge has only served to draw Brian closer to God and bolster the importance of this timely yet ageless message.

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