Katie's prayer: Veggie Tales' "Can't Believe It's Christmas"

I can’t believe it’s Christmas

Life flies by really fast. At the end of this week, 2011 begins. Next week, I’m going to have my anniversary of working for the diocese - 2 years! January is also when I started with being a DRE - so 1 year on that. I’ve already been home for a whole week. I feel like growing up, a lot of time is spent looking to the future. Being a little kid waiting for Christmas morning. Going through junior high and getting excited for being an actual teenager. Waiting to get that license, then (at least in Missouri) waiting to get that full license. Looking forward to high school graduation, then college graduation. Then looking forward to being able to drink. So much of life is not being happy with where you are at the moment and looking forward to that next great thing.

And at some point, this realization happens that always looking forward makes life fly by really fast. So the trick becomes learning how to be happy with today, how to be happy with this moment right now. I’m honestly not the best at that, in fact I suck. I think that’s why I spend a lot of my prayer time telling God how my life should go. Cause I’m not happy with the present. But it is one thing that God keeps bringing back to my attention. Every time, I say I’m listening and try and then go back on my word shortly. So today I’m going to try, but this time I’m getting to the root of the problem. Dear God, help me to be happy with the present. Help me to not look forward to that next “best” thing but to really enjoy the moment and be present in the current moment. Amen.