LIVE IN THE PRESENT - TENSE

We are called to be people who live in the present-tense.  Hence we have to learn to stop trying to grapple with the ‘what ifs?’ and let God take care of it. You simply focus on ‘today’ and do what you can and as you can.  As ‘todays’ of your life are put together, it shall become a master-piece.

While touring Italy, a man visited a cathedral that had been completed on the outside only. Once inside, the traveler found an artist kneeling before an enormous wall upon which he had just begun to create a mosaic. On some tables nearby were thousands of pieces of colored ceramic. Curious, the visitor asked the artist how he would ever finish such a large project. The artist answered that he knew how much he could accomplish in one day. Each morning, he marked off an area to be completed that day and didn’t worry about what remained outside that space. That was the best he could do; and if he faithfully did his best, one day the mosaic would be finished.

It is found that an average person’s anxiety is focused on:

40% - things that will never happen. 

30% - things about the past that can’t be changed.

12%  - things about criticism by others, mostly untrue.

10%  - about health, which gets worse with anxiety related           

             stress.

 8%   - about real problems that has to be faced. 

Remember that anxiety about the future will not take you anywhere. Moreover, it shall fail you to tackle the real problem which is only 8%. Do not let your energy drained by the 92% assumptions which shall either not happen at all or it shall come in the 8% of ‘that day’ in the future.