“The Present is what we truly have”
By Dr Babajide A. Alalade
I once thought, why would someone die even before they were born, or on the day they were born; and/or why would someone live on and on, and still get hooked to some life support machine, and they hang on each day, they literally refused to die?!
All these gets me pondering on what matters, I once asked a close acquaintance these questions; “Did this newborn (or unborn offend God ) that they became a stillborn?” I don’t think so.
I have realised this today that, and I found the answer in a statement by Marcus Aurelius, he said, “no one ever loses a life other than the one they are living, and no one ever lives a life other than the one they are losing”.
I realised that, the longest and the shortest life then amount to the same, for the present moment lasts the same for all and is all anyone possesses.
“….No one can lose either the past or the future, for how can someone be deprived of what’s not theirs after all?!”
Remember, Bill Keane, the cartoonist, said; “Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. And he adds, that’s why it’s called the present.”
The present, is all we have in our possession, but it has an expiring date, Today.
The Bible, tells us Today is the day of Salvation, this means true life exists Today, and today only!
If you learn to enjoy the present, and if you really learn to enjoy all of it, you would be surprised that it’s all you need and it is truly enough, and that that’s the essence of the manna (in the Bible), “not too keep more that you needed for the particular day, otherwise it turns to worms!”
If you learn to enjoy the present and all it brings, it would last a whole life time.
Enjoy your Day… from Dr Babajide Alalade.
Keep moving…….life’s Good with God.
By Babajide Alalade
September 10, 2017
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