• Home
  • About
  • Daily Thoughts
  • Contact
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • About
  • Daily Thoughts
  • Contact
No Result
View All Result
No Result
View All Result
Home Belonging

Moment

by bill
2011-03-11
0 0

For me the two most debilitating emotions are fear and regret.  Both take me away from the moment at hand.  Regret drags me into the past.  The first time can be about learning.  The second, third, and infinite loops are about punishing myself for something that was less than my ideal.  Candidly, I cannot find a positive purpose once I have taken the learning and followed through on the accountability.  With those two in hand, any additional time spent with regret is a pointless exercise in abusing one’s self.

Fear is equally debilitating.  An appropriate level of fear that reminds one of danger while encouraging one to prepare or take a different course of action is a gift.  Beyond that, fear is an enemy of living.  Fear weakens one’s ability to exercise freedom.  It takes one away from the present into a place where no action can possibly respond to emotion.  If one succumbs, fear wins.  It will control you, initially dominating and eventually taking command.

Ironically, fear and regret have many disguises.  I have come to recognize that any emotion that takes me away from the moment at hand is related to fear and regret.  Wishing and longing are good examples.  One author candidly left a warning.  “Don’t be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else. Where you are right now is God’s place for you. Live and obey and love and believe right there. God, not your marital status, defines your life. Don’t think I’m being harder on you than on the others. I give this same counsel in all the churches.”  (1 Corinthians 7.17)

I know my schedule is going to be chaotic today.  I have no idea how it will unfold.  I do know that I can be present.  I can give those I am with, even when I am alone, my full attention.  It is something that does not come naturally.  Yet it is a window for everyone.  It is rarely easy.  There will be distractions.  In each moment, we have the opportunity to exercise our freedom and live.

Post Views: 1,028
ShareTweetShare
Previous Post

Circle

Next Post

History

bill

bill

Hearing and sharing stories are a big part of living and growing. I in the hope my stories will help you hear more of your own. Feel free to share and be part of the quest to hear whispers in the moments we have.

Next Post

History

Starting Point

Latest Posts

  • Target
  • Choice
  • Before Dawn
  • Packages
  • Halfway

Categories

  • Awareness
  • Because
  • Belonging
  • Dear John, Continuing Conversation
  • Dear John, Love God
  • Discovery
  • Hope Emerges
  • Hope Lives
  • Invitation
  • Knowing
  • Living
  • More
  • Reality God's Way Part II
  • Reality into Living
  • Reality Strikes
  • Reality…God's Way
  • Recreated
  • Recreation
  • Renewal
  • Restoration
  • Travel
  • Uncategorized
  • Unknown
  • Welcome
  • Window
  • Windows

Archives

  • Home
  • About
  • Daily Thoughts
  • Contact

2023 Copyright © Daily Whispers.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • About
  • Daily Thoughts
  • Contact

© 2021 Daily Whispers.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In