“Sufficient for today is its own troubles.” There is so much truth in those words.

I spend more time than necessary playing through what-ifs and if/then scenarios when what I should be doing is living in the present of today.

Troubleshooting is not the issue. If it were I’d find a solution and move on. I replay the what-ifs over and over.

It is worse during deployments.

Every knock on the door makes my heart skip a beat, every empty night is filled with my what-ifs and wondering what is happening half a world away.

But even when he is here I still play this foolish game. Our household has been dealing with a few difficulties (bullies, depression, and grief to name a few) and instead of tackling the issue of the day my mind races forward to the worst case scenario for tomorrow.

Instead of handing it over to God in prayer, I hold tightly to the foolish idea that it is mine to fix.

Yes. Those tragedies may come. The bullies may only get meaner. The grief isn’t going to simply disappear. And the depression might get worse…might.

Sufficient for today is its own troubles. I promised myself that this year, 2016, I would learn to be more present. So I’m searching for the how-tos rather than the what ifs. And once again I’m learning to be still, to let go, ’cause God’s got this.

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Matthew 6:25-34

There is a lot of information out there and sometimes it can be overwhelming to find what we are looking for. The question I guess really is what are we searching for?

We have to know the question before we can truly find the answer.

In Deuteronomy, it speaks of worshiping things made by man’s hands. These idols are made from wood and stone, things that lack the power to even eat or smell. It is easy to get distracted by the physical. To stop with the tangible items that we can touch and feel and put our hope in what we can see. It’s easier to put God in a box because then, just maybe, we can harness that power and get it to cooperate.

God is bigger than our boxes. God can not be contained.

Yet He/She still promises that if we seek we will find. If we don’t stop looking, if we continue to ask the questions and refuse the simplistic man-made idols, if we keep searching then we will find the One we are looking for.

Deuteronomy 4:25-31
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Sufficient for today is its own troubles

The date is now March 31, 2021. I found the above hidden in the drafts folder when doing maintenance on my blog, but I could have written it today.

After all, today’s troubles have a way of piling up as it is. There’s no need to add tomorrow’s to the list.

This is one area where procrastination is key!

What I’m focusing on today

Life seems to go through these cycles as if we weren’t listening well enough the first time around. Not putting God in a box and sitting still long enough to listen to all there is to hear is a lesson I continually return to.

When will I learn to rest in the present moment? I’m learning. Slowly, but I’m learning. 2020 helped make a change in my life, one that is going to stick.

I’m learning to choose me, to remember that sufficient for today is its own troubles, and to honor the life I’ve been blessed with.

What lesson do you find yourself returning to?