My kids are worry warts.  They are sometimes paralyzed by what if’s and worry about future school assignments etc.  How can we educate and comfort our kids AND ourselves?  This is the 1st of (I hope) many posts on the topic of worry.

Chapter 11 of Ruthless Trust by Brennan Manning is a life changing concept and chapter.  The chapter is titled: The Geography of Nowhere.  The concept is simple.  If we are NOT NOW HERE then we are NO WHERE!  So lesson #1 is to live in the NOW.  Don’t worry about the future or the past.  Live in the Now Here.

 “The music of what is happening,” said great Fionn, “that is the finest music in the world.” …The music of what is happening can be heard only in the present moment, right now, right here.  Now/here spells now-here.  To be fully present to whoever or whatever is immediately before us is to pitch a tent in the wilderness of Now-here.  It is an act of radical trust-trust that God can be encountered at no other time and in no other place in the present moment.  Being fully present in the now is perhaps the premier skill of the spiritual life.”-Chapter 11, Ruthless Trust by Manning