This is one of the things I am learning, or trying to learn, at the moment! I’m sure it is a challenge to many people, especially in our busy culture where we are often rushing on to the next thing, to appreciate what we have at the moment. I find that all too often I am thinking back to yesterday (what I enjoyed or more often what I would like to change) or worrying about the future.
I thought that I learnt this when I was ‘incapacitated’ with ME/Chronic Fatigue a few years ago, that I needed to focus on the positive, take from each day what I could and regularly count my blessings and what I’m thankful for. But I seem to be learning it all over again now. (I find this happens, God gives me lessons for the exact situation I am in and the same lesson looks different when I am in a new situation… Either that or I am very forgetful and a slow learner!)
You see, things have changed and that in itself is something to be thankful for. I am no longer in the state I was two years ago, just a few months after giving birth when I would crawl through each day and lie down at every opportunity. At that time I was battling depression and anxiety but also struggling to stand long enough to hang up washing or make a cup of tea. Now my fatigue has improved so that I am not constantly crying out for strength and energy but I am still not able to do some things I want to do, such as walk into town and back, and I still have a rest in the afternoon.
It is all too easy now to be wishing I could do more. (We are so hard to satisfy as human beings aren’t we? We always want more!) My mind can fill with anxious thoughts instead of focusing on God and what He has for me now. I am looking to the future and getting excited/nervous about when Levi starts at nursery and what that might mean for me and how our lives will change. In some ways this is fine and I do need to plan for this, but at the same time God has given me this present moment to live in and enjoy. Levi will never be 2 and a half again and I will never have this time again when it is my main role to look after him. I am so blessed. Because of this I try to immerse myself in what he is doing and learning and experiencing and to live each day as God would have me live it.
How are you blessed? How is God calling you to live in this present moment?
I thought that I learnt this when I was ‘incapacitated’ with ME/Chronic Fatigue a few years ago, that I needed to focus on the positive, take from each day what I could and regularly count my blessings and what I’m thankful for. But I seem to be learning it all over again now. (I find this happens, God gives me lessons for the exact situation I am in and the same lesson looks different when I am in a new situation… Either that or I am very forgetful and a slow learner!)
You see, things have changed and that in itself is something to be thankful for. I am no longer in the state I was two years ago, just a few months after giving birth when I would crawl through each day and lie down at every opportunity. At that time I was battling depression and anxiety but also struggling to stand long enough to hang up washing or make a cup of tea. Now my fatigue has improved so that I am not constantly crying out for strength and energy but I am still not able to do some things I want to do, such as walk into town and back, and I still have a rest in the afternoon.
It is all too easy now to be wishing I could do more. (We are so hard to satisfy as human beings aren’t we? We always want more!) My mind can fill with anxious thoughts instead of focusing on God and what He has for me now. I am looking to the future and getting excited/nervous about when Levi starts at nursery and what that might mean for me and how our lives will change. In some ways this is fine and I do need to plan for this, but at the same time God has given me this present moment to live in and enjoy. Levi will never be 2 and a half again and I will never have this time again when it is my main role to look after him. I am so blessed. Because of this I try to immerse myself in what he is doing and learning and experiencing and to live each day as God would have me live it.
How are you blessed? How is God calling you to live in this present moment?