Right At This Moment

 I read these line (from Ted Loder’s ‘Grerrillas of Grace)  with my first sip of coffee this morning :

“Eternal Friend,

grant me an ease,

to breathe deeply of this moment, 

this light,

   this miracle of now.

Beneath the din and fury

of great movements

and harsh news

and urgent crises,

make me attentive still

to good new,

to small occasions,

and the grace of what is possible….”

And I put my head back, closed my eye, and let the silence speak what was in my thoughts.

Right here in this moment I am cozy in my chair with a warm cup of coffee and my fury friend lying close to me.

In this moment I am safe.

I have my daughter and family right next door. 

I am warm in my tiny home from the chill of fall. 

A new little great-grandson just across town,

Four wonders living their young live in their own ways.

I have a precious friend to share with and care for.

Right in this moment I have no worries, no needs, no fears.

In this moment I have people to love and who love me.

In this moment I am blessed with a faith that sustains me through whatever I must face as this day moves into darkness.

Right this moment I can watch the wind of the Spirit move about doing God’s bidding;

 

enjoy the white fluffy clouds in the blue sky,

the sun lighting up the whole world.

Right at this moment I have food in the freezer, cupboards and refrigerator to feed me for weeks.

Right this moment I have money enough for what ever I truly need.  And am mobile enough to get it.

25 ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? ²⁶Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? ²⁷And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? ²⁸And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, ²⁹yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. ³⁰But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹Therefore do not worry, saying, “What will we eat?” or “What will we drink?” or “What will we wear?” ³²For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

34 ‘So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.(Mt. 6)