Anticipation.  It can be joyous and full of excitement, or unwanted and full of dread.  Yes, it is the human way to look toward the future, but in so doing you miss the finer details of what is here and now.  Being present is a practice.  The mind wanders back to the past and forward to the future.  To be present brings a joy of its own when you set the intention of seeing the beauty, the goodness, the love that is all around you, if you will tame the roaming mind.  Now is fresh and new when you see what presents itself in and as Awareness for what it is, not what it has been in the past and what it might be in the future. 

You are so very loved.

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