In speaking of the “bread of life,” Jesus calls it our daily bread. The reason for this is very fundamental; our contact with God must be a living one. It is our momentary attitude that governs our being.
behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation (2 Corinthians 6:2).
The most futile thing in the world is to seek to live upon a past realization. The thing that means spiritual life to you is your realization of God here and now.
Be thankful for yesterday’s experience, knowing that it is with you forever in the change of consciousness that it brought about, but do not lean upon it for a single moment for the need of today. The manna in the desert is the Old Testament prototype of this daily nourishment. The people wandering in the wilderness were told that they would be supplied with manna from heaven every day but they were on no account to try to save it up for the morrow. When, notwithstanding the rule, some of them did try to live upon yesterday’s food, the result was pestilence or death.
So it is with us. The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
When we loose the bonds of yesterday and break the shackles of tomorrow, we are then freed to live in the liberty of now. We are released in order to breathe the joy of life, free from past guilt and future foreboding. Our burdens of self-judgement and self-recrimination are lifted as we float unbound in the sublime present. In this state, God feeds us the bread of life and reveals pure joy, peace and grace.
When we conduct ourselves as a child who knows no fear and feels no guilt, then God’s spirit can fill us to a full measure. Then, His love and grace will surround us and flow from us to fill those around us with all that is good. And we, free as a child will live in our gardens filled with grace, peace and love.
Carpe Diem,
Z gardener
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