I don't want to miss these moments.

Saturday morning, I caught myself practically hyperventilating over my calendar. I pulled it up just to check about a detail for Monday. But that led to Tuesday, and then Wednesday, and then the first two weeks of June, and then it was August and school was starting again!

I invest way too much time planning the future. Not big plans like a trip to Europe for our 40th wedding anniversary or more savings in our retirement account. No, I ignore those. I obsess over two weeks from Thursday when I need to go stay with my mother-in-law for a few days and how I’ll manage to do the grocery shopping, banking, and laundry that week to keep things running while I’m gone. Two weeks away. Two. And I’m obsessing.

Not only do I fail to live in the moment some days, but other times I get trapped there. You know the scenario. A conversation goes badly or someone makes an offhand remark that slaps your face. The next thing you know, that moment has done a mind-meld with your brain, and you can’t stop thinking about it!

So, I was wondering how to live in the moment without being trapped there when suddenly I thought of a scripture. In Him we live and move and have our being (Acts 17:28)

Maybe that is the secret. Staying in Him (and Him in me) will keep me from running ahead to the moments I don’t yet have the grace for. And it will free me from staying tangled in the past, beating my fists against a situation that will not change.

Instead, I will live. And move. And be in every sacred moment.

In Him.