Back From The Future Into The Now
Stay in the present awareness of current provision.
When I got up one morning, my computer had reset its time clock to 2099.
Everything on my computer was blinking in alarm because all my software programs and protective services were entirely outdated.
Obviously, there wasn’t anything actually wrong. It wasn’t 2099.
The alarms occurred based on a false reading. No matter what the computer said or thought was true, it wasn’t 2099.
Since that had happened before I knew what to do, I reset the clock back to now.
So often, our personal lives are set in future time.
Instead of being present now, our thoughts are on tomorrow, a year from now, or when the house is bought or sold, the kids grow up, our parents pass away, or the job is gone—the list is endless.
With our lives set in future time, alarms go off, or in our case, fear goes off, entangling our thinking in its web, bringing future fears into the present and making them appear real.
As a result, we are less and less likely to pause and observe our beliefs and then relinquish any that do not match the universal truth of Love’s constant provision.
Instead, we are inclined to rush around trying to fix or understand a situation that only exists because we chose to advance into the future rather than stay in the present awareness of provision now.
This rushing around, whether physically or mentally, compounds the problem.
If we are successful at “fixing” the situation—like earning enough money to be current on the rent or appeasing an unhappy relationship issue—we may think that the problem is over when we dismiss it for the moment.
However, it’s waiting for the next time we future-project and let fear in the door.
If we are not successful at “fixing” the situation, then guilt, anger, or depression might set in because we don’t know what to do, and we feel helpless.
This increases the fear because of our perceived inability to make things right.
How I fixed the computer is exactly what we can do when we find ourselves future projecting and feeling fear.
We can reset ourselves to the present now.
The question is how to reset and to what “now.”
The “now” we want to return to is the present awareness of the constant provision that is always taking place. We will find that now of continuous provision by calming down and moving our awareness into present consciousness.
Notice your breath, the movement of the wind, the radiance of the sun, and the comfort of the clouds. Listen to the birds, and notice that they are always in the now and are constantly aware of their provision.
These symbols of constant provision only hint at the overflowing abundance present for us, and as us, in every moment.
We access it by slowing down and feeling its presence.
Many years ago, in a moment of complete panic, as I future-projected how our family would be able to live without money, I stood under a tree and looked at it towering above me.
I noticed its many leaves, its presence, and its stability.
I noticed the giving and receiving that it lived as, and in that present moment, I realized that all provision for the divine Mind’s ideas—and that meant my family, too—was always available.
I still go back to a tree when I find myself out of the moment and into false human fears projecting itself as my thinking.
Resetting ourselves back to the present time takes practice.
We are in the habit of not being present, of being too busy, of listening to projected fears, and of taking sides.
Coming back to the now will remind us that fear cannot do anything more than the computer when it was in the future.
Instead of future projecting, we can learn and practice the habit of recognizing that no provision has ever reached us without first being a quality of divine Love.
We can reset ourselves to the One infinite present now and always giving.
Let the consciousness of constant provision guide you in deciding what action to take.
Follow the still, quiet voice that leads away from the projected future and back to the solid foundation of now.
This will take care of what you perceive as the future. And that’s enough for now.
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