Megan's prayer: Andy Cloninger's "We Are Waiting"

We are waiting

It seems that so much of my life is focused on what is still to come - the things that I am waiting for. Simple things, like waiting for a school day to end just so I have 5 minutes of quiet. Waiting for our LifeTeen retreat to come so that I can stop preparing and just enjoy the retreat. Waiting for this school year to end so that I can know what next year holds for me. Life is constantly about waiting.

I'm struggling with that because it causes me to lose focus of the "now". I can easily focus on others and their "now" - I'm able to see what others have and the things that they have been waiting for, but I lose focus of that when I start to look at my own "now". If I looked at my now, I'm sure I would be pleasantly surprised to see how well I am doing. I have a family that loves me. I have a job that pays enough, and that I LOVE going to. I have a boyfriend who loves and cares about me, and I have a family in LifeTeen that will always be there for me. I'm SO blessed. I need to start taking a few minutes to focus on the now, and stop focusing all that I am waiting for.