It’s been a long season of writers block for this practical mystic. In a year in which my soul’s work has been one of awe and wild joy, it has also been a year of increased physical pain and aching frustration. But this, this day is the beginning of yet another year of waiting the coming of Emmanuel, awakening once again to the ever new God within us.
I began to read the Bhagavad Gita this year, or rather translations thereof. I’m about half way through the first of two volumns entitled by Paramahansa Yogananda The Bhagavad Gita: Royal Science of God-Realization reading a verse and commentary a day. I’ve been pondering this quote for a week:
Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! Forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! Control the present! Live supremely well now! It will whitewash the dark past, and compel the future to be bright! This is the way of the wise.
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And so, for this advent I am pondering what it means to control the present and live supremely well NOW as a christian in these turbulent times. What I am controlling to day is an attitude of hope, choosing hope over despair, hope rather than cynicism, hope instead of frustration, hope in contradiction to fear. Won’t you join me?
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That is so because I have been pondering the same thing lately. I read the book “stumbling on happiness” which addresses that issue of living in the present and its relationship to happiness. It was eye-opening!