Time is an elusive thing. It slips through our hands and into the wind. We can’t catch it. We can’t hold it. It’s in its nature to keep moving as it is in ours to resist.

What if we surrendered this age-old tug of war?

We don’t have to ache after yesterday or push for tomorrow. We don’t have to cling to today because it is familiar. What good does all that refusing do?

Instead, let go. Receive instead of resist.

Let’s choose to savor today. Today is a blessing. This moment will pass, but will we take advantage of the opportunities here and now?

Or will we choose to be grateful tomorrow when we get the career or the spouse or the vacation. The choice is ours.

If we keep pulling to get what we desire, we are apt to incur blisters on our hands. Why do we keep our hands fisted—closed off to what God gives us today and greedy for tomorrow. Why don’t we pry open our hands to receive the gift of life right before us?

It is a wise man who can keep in step with time, not lingering over the past or racing for tomorrow. Simply living, dependent on God.

The business of life can distract from actual living. We can be so consumed with today’s responsibilities that we forget to breathe and appreciate all that God has blessed us with.

We all have ambitions and dreams. But don’t let planning for tomorrow squelch your gratitude today.

Soon even this moment will fall away. Don’t let it slip away.

I can’t help but me in awe of the miracle of life. We are surrounded by beauty—friendship, love, nature. Don’t you see it?

Don’t you see the absolute beauty and gift of living? Can’t you feel your heart beating in your chest and hear the birds chirping in the crystal sky? Don’t you see the thousands of stars and tremble at the magnitude of the universe?

Don’t you see all the ways the Lord is revealing you to Himself? Can’t you hear the love song the Lord is singing to you? Doesn’t the span of it all move you to utter gratitude and amazement?

We have today. That is enough. Don’t miss the extraordinary hidden in the everyday. Stop striving and just be.

Let go.

Open your hands to what the Lord is giving to you this very moment. Let your heart rejoice. Let your soul sing.