The only moment we have

Ninety percent of our media focuses on the atrocities of the past or projected events that have yet to come. How high was the gas four years ago, how high will it be in 6 months? What we did wrong in the Vietnam war, the possibility of a cold war with Korea. What more is the past than a written history, unalterable and gone? What more is the future than unwritten possibilities, flighty and unconstrained? How can we affect the future or the past, how can we possibly remove ourselves form the one moment, at which we are currently living, and alter something that is not ephemeral? The past and present are concepts, nothing more. Time is only present in the present, all else is speculative.
     I say we abandon our concern for everything but the present. I realize that this would be an extremely difficult task but wouldn't the reward be amazing? This abandonment, I believe, is the way that we can adopt a Christ-like life. If we had no prejudices from the past, no bitterness towards history, how kind would we be? Hate and anger are deep rooted emotions, If we remove ourselves from the past couldn't we remove these emotions? If we had no fear of financial decline, if CNN didn't predict the housing market to drop, if the thought of college loans didn't loom over our heads how many more dollars would we give to the homeless? How many more minutes would we spend with our family rather than on our fiscal responsibilites? How much more of our life would we spend outwardly living rather than inwardly dying? Satan wants us to be concerned with our own well being, he wants us to remeber past wrongs. He wants us to be wrapped up so much in our past failures and future pitfalls that we miss the moment we are in. Each moment we miss accumulates into hours, days and years. Before we know it we have missed our lives becuase we have been too busy looking behind and ahead.
    It will be a tough transition but one that will be worth it. I am living in the moment, I want to experience life and the world around me. I don't want the extra luggage of worrying about what isnt even here. I don't want to miss out on the plan that God has for me. I'm living in the only moment I am guaranteed, now.