What's New (Year)?

Well, here we are on the last Friday before the New Year and it is like we have a clean slate in front of us. We can forget the past and press on toward... trouble in Pakistan, the presidential elections in November, a sluggish housing market and whatever else befalls us in that ethereal, non-tangible thing we call the future.

Funny thing is, the future never gets here because we are immovably locked into the present. The past is gone and all we can do is learn from the past; and the future isn't here yet because it is always ahead of us and we are stuck fast, super-glued, in the present. So we plan, scheme and dream about the future, the tomorrow that never gets here, because it is always right-now, today.

But hey! Happy New Year's! Here's hoping and praying that when your future 'right now' gets here (because it always is) that the dreams you had for yesterday and the ones you have for tomorrow find their reality in all you have at hand, your current right now.

All we can take into the present is our good intentions of doing things differently than we did in the past. All we can do is take the good intentions we have right now and hope that they find their fulillment as we wait and wait for the future that is eternally one-step ahead of us and always eluding our grasp.

My hope is that your good intentions become reality, and that your reality includes time for hearing from God. If anyone can deal with the future it is Him (the Only One Who transcends the future), and if you can accept it, He'll guide you into the 'future' present if you'll ask Him to...

Happy New Year!

Paul