THIS MOMENT.

Today, I feel like this:

To which I can only think:

When I was living in Texas, I got to know my amazing cousin, Amber. She is one of those beautiful people who are constantly inspiring without meaning to be at all. She is an exceptional actress, and has a voice like a songbird. Amber was in the drama club of her high school at this point in time, and they were working on a One-act play called Shadowbox. In this play, there are several interconnected stories. Every single one involves a person who is terminally ill. They all have to talk to a god-like figure who asks them, and occasionally their family members, how they are feeling about their situation. The focus of the play is on the brevity of life, and how important it is to live for the moment. Which is brought to the forefront by the play's tagline: This moment.
The first time I saw this, I felt my eyes water. And that was in a rehearsal. Can you imagine what I felt like when I finally saw it? I was a mess. Haha, a wreck of emotion. I felt ridiculous, but I felt the crew did a fantastic job of allowing the characters to truly shine through, and get the message across. The play was excellently written(and edited by my wonderfully talented cousin) to highlight what I felt I had not been realizing in my own life. Carpe Diem; seize the day.

I have been fighting my own personal demons from my past for a while now. And often, I will look to anything for comfort.
The bible:
2 Corinthians 5:17..."Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things pass away, behold, all things become new."
Philippians 3:13-14 "No, dear brothers and sisters, I am still not all I should be, but I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us up to heaven."

Songs:
"This is how it works, you peer inside yourself; you take the things you like, and try to love the things you took."
"I must go on standing. You can't break that which isn't yours. I must go on standing." (Regina Spektor, both quotes.)

Writers:
"Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before." (Herman Melville)
"Forever is composed of nows." (Emily Dickinson)

And images:





All I can do is live for today. Everything points to enjoying what I am presented with now. God will give me the strength I need to continue living for the moment, and is the only one who can give me the strength to move on. I feel like now is always the time.