"I Am" A Prayer for Living In the Moment

I was regretting the past
and fearing the future.
Suddenly God was speaking.
"My name is 'I am.'" I waited.

God continued, "When you live in the past,
with its mistakes and regrets,
it is hard.  I am not there.
My name is not 'I was."

When you live in the future,
with its problems and fears, it is hard.
I am not there.
My name is not 'I will be."
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When you live in this moment,
it is not hard.  I am here.
My name is "I am."

(From Helen Mellicost, on the kitchen wall of the Ranch Guesthouse, St. Benedicts Monastery, Snowmass, Colorado)

printed in  One Hundred Graces (selected by Marcia and Jack Kelly)
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