That's what my son Daniel stated to me last week. He went on to prove it in our conversation since as soon as I tried to say now was now it was no longer so!! It's true in a way, isn't it? Now is so very fleeting. Yesterdays, on the other hand, keep piling up before our eyes. Regrets, memories, good and bad, stay with us. But the present flies by into the past in the blink on an eye.
James 4:14b captures the essence: "What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes."
Yet it is not meaningless, no, not at all! We have the challenge from scripture to make the most of every opportunity given to us to do good. To live in the center of God's will is the best place to be. There we can have peace and the satisfaction of knowing that, although our lives are like sand through an hourglass, each moment is redeemed as we commit our way to Him with the heart of Mary: "I am the Lord's servant, may it be to me as You have spoken."
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