I wonder how different I would view and in turn live my life, with the realization that most problems, situations, and circumstances that afflict me are temporary.

Most of my thoughts and energy in any given day are devoted to worrying about or trying to come up with a solution to these issues.

If I were to view these issues through the lens of eternity instead of right now, would that warrant a sigh of relief on my part?
Would I actually be able to live my life, free of the stress and fear that go hand in hand with my problems? We’ve all heard the phrase “live in the now.”

Dare I dream?

For me personally, that phrase always invoked a sense of shirking responsibility, of procrastination. Why put off until tomorrow, what you
can worry about today and tomorrow. I didn’t grasp the real meaning behind it. I felt that to not worry about these issues meant a lack of concern.

That’s not the case.

Despite trying, there are things that we can change, and those which we cannot.

We must make our peace with those things that are out of our control.
Our perceived control anyways.

We must trust the ebb and flow of life and love. For every wave of the ocean that crashes against the shore, there is an equally powerful wave that recedes back into the abyss.