My Pastors Sermon Today

I am completely and utterly honored to have been mentioned by my pastor in his Sunday sermon today.  The sermon truly brought home the idea of living in the now not the past and not in the future, how this empedes us from livng in the present.

I find that living life in the present moment has become more important and more neccessary than before my cancer diagnosis.  I see now the importance of making this moment count and not living int the past when I did not have a health opportunity and when I had been in physical training for two years.  When I live in that past and when I attempt to live in the future I get confused now and it feels odd to me.  I don't have any desire to think about what will happen tomorrow or even in the next hour and as a result I live in the moment by moment and enjoy it the very best I can.

Today I am yearning for a McDonald's frap coffee and I think if it is in my detiny to get one then I will but I am not going to think about it for two hours and ponder whether to leave the house and get over to the store to buy it.  Nothing matters that much to me but to make a decision in the moment.  I blog and then I stop blogging.  I write when the heart desires.  I then take a break from it from time to time.  I don't judge it.  I just live it.

I am very honored to have been mentioned in a sermon by a person whom I respect and love.  He is a person who is doing a job that is really more like serving others.  He has decided that his life may be about giving to others.  I can honestly say that his giving to me has been incredibly supportive and has truly helped me to get from livng in the past or jumping to the future but rather staying in the moment.

Living in the moment is where I want to be as often as possible.  I will flaw.  I will run in the direction of the guy running in the other direction some times here and there.  I will make the mistake of judging myself for just being and not moving or doing anything.  Yet what I have found is that living in the present moment helps me to stay near the earth where I can feel the vibration of God.
Amen.
Elliott Collazo Gonzalez









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