The footnotes in my Bible expand on this: "Our heart - our feelings of love and desire - dictates to a great extent how we live our lives because we always find time to do the things we enjoy. Make sure your affections lead you in the right direction. Put boundaries on your desires: Don't go after everything you see. Look straight ahead, keep your eyes fixed on your goal, and don't get sidetracked on detours that lead to sin."
This passage of scripture found me very fittingly this morning after I was talking about this very topic with my love last night before we went to bed. Boundaries are something that I've recently learned to establish in several areas of my life and now this passage and the footnotes give me a whole new way to look at them.
I really like the part in the footnote that talks about always finding time to do the things we enjoy...this is so true. Yet I am constantly feeling like there is not enough time. Every thing we do, think, feel, believe is a choice. In every waking moment I am faced with choices, most of them do not even require active attention or awareness, but seem automatic like some default setting. I realize that I lose so much awareness of the present moment. Living fully in each moment is not easy because most of the time my mind or my feelings are off in another place. As long as I am holding onto the past or putting myself in the future in situations that have yet to happen (worrying) then I can not BE where I am in that moment....even if it is brushing my teeth, eating lunch, or driving.
I want to really be mindful, or better yet, be heartful in all I do, all I think, all I speak, and in just being.
Be beautiful and be with your heartbeat that tells you "now" "now" "now" as it beats because that is all we really have.
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