Rear View Mirrors and Today

What do you see in your rear view mirror?

It’s a fact and necessity that RVs have very large side mirrors. As I’m always the passenger on our trips, I spend a lot of time looking into that mirror - when we change lanes or back up or watch wide loads coming alongside us.

But when I focus on these things, I can never see where we’re headed at the same time. If I were the driver, that would be disastrous.

Sometimes, in my life, I get so distracted by looking back that I lose sight of where I’m going. 

How about you?

Our move to South Carolina has prompted lots of looking back.

I think of my childhood and teen years, work and family. These memories are part of my story, just as yours are part of your story. But we can never go back.

The past will always remain in the past. And as long as we’re focused there, our precious present moments are being missed, unappreciatively tossed into the past with the rest. 

That seems like an empty way to live, doesn’t it?

So when we’re longing for that particular time when everything seemed much easier . . . well, maybe that’s the time we most need to open our eyes to NOW. 

I think the key to staying in the present is to trust that the Lord has already mastered time. Our times are in His very GOOD hands. He is with us in the present so that we need not over-analyze the past or worry for the future. He calls to us this very day, right now at this moment: Be present.

Maybe the best question to persuade us to live in the present is this: Can I trust Him with the past, present and future?

Yes, you absolutely can.

So today, if you find yourself stuck looking in the rear view mirror with regret or longing, how will you change your perspective? 

Trust Him with your every moment right now.

And embrace this present day in all its transforming fullness.

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Today is a GOOD day!

Natalie

“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,
    

whose confidence is in him.

They will be like a tree planted by the water
    

that sends out its roots by the stream.


It does not fear when heat comes;
    

its leaves are always green.


It has no worries in a year of drought
    

and never fails to bear fruit.”

Jeremiah 17:7-8