When you meet someone for the first time, all you have is the present. The possibilities trigger wonder.
That wonder ensures you project into the future, favorable possibilities and outcomes.
Your projections make you miss critical observations in the present, ensuring that the past looks slightly different than the lived present.
This mismatch brings a strain that is held in the present. Time is spent trying to form a continuous link between a fixed past and a fluid future.
We start judging in the present, what was, and what is to come. The present begins to fade, until all you have left are memories and possibilities, no observations.
The essence of life is to meet every day like you are meeting someone for the first time. All you have is the present. The possibilities trigger wonder.
– Osasu Oviawe
Day: November 18, 2020
If or When?
Matthew 14:26 – 33
But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, saying, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out for fear. But immediately he spoke to them, saying, “Take heart, it is I; have no fear.” And Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, bid me come to you on the water.” He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus; but when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.” Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, “O man of little faith, why did you doubt?” And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased. And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”
Homily:
If statements are filled with doubt, and doubt attracts circumstances that ensure it is self-fulfilling.
“Lord, if it is you, bid me come to you on the water.”
That if attracted the wind.
When statements are filled with confidence, and confidence attracts circumstances that ensure it is self-fulfilling.
“And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased.”