here and now.

I am coming to realize more and more in my life, that things never turn as you think they will. Sometimes I really wish I could just fast forward and see what will come of my life, but I know that would serve no purpose. The hardest thing about life is facing the unexpected. You don't know what is to come, and yet we try to think that we have to know everything now, and figure everything out now. Projections are important and effective in decision making, but I also think there is so much to be said about the becoming process. Half of life is the journey in getting to where we want to be. I know this is sounding like a really cliche message, but I really feel that this is especially applicable to me right now with how things are going in my life. You cannot expect to know things faster than time and circumstances allow. Realities need to be faced, and situations need to be approached with possible solutions. We shouldn't try to fix things that aren't broken. It is important to cross bridges when we get to them, and build them in the mean time when we seem to be stuck in a difficult circumstance.  These are a few words that keep coming to mind from President Monson...

"Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our love with friends and family. One day each of us will run out of tomorrows.

This is our one and only chance at mortal life—here and now. The longer we live, the greater is our realization that it is brief. Opportunities come, and then they are gone. I believe that among the greatest lessons we are to learn in this short sojourn upon the earth are lessons that help us distinguish between what is important and what is not. I plead with you not to let those most important things pass you by as you plan for that illusive and nonexistent future when you will have time to do all that you want to do. Instead, find joy in the journey—now.

 “Both abundance and lack [of abundance] exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend … when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present—love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us [happiness]—the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth.”