Live thankfully now and anticipate the future. In that sentence, I want to emphasize thankfully, and anticipate. Given that two days ago, it came out that the definition of future really means what happens after death, the events occurring at the end of this week, or in July, or next year are really all things we experience now.
I’ve had personal experience living events without deliberate thanksgiving, and frankly, doing that is neither wise, nor pleasant. As part of my blog post on Hope, I included a poem by Emily Dickinson.
Today, I’d like to share poem 95 by another of my favorite poets, e.e. cummings, to inspire you to live thankfully now and anticipate the future:
I thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today;
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any—lifted from the no
of all nothing—human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
No matter how odd now is turning out to be, don’t fear the events that stack up.
Live thankfully now and anticipate the future. Yes, anticipate. Anticipation is what people feel about positive events, and every believer’s future with God will be positive beyond human imagination. Occasionally, people say they’re anxious for an upcoming happy event, but anxious is really a synonym for fearful.
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