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In truth, we never miss the moment. We are always present because it's all that really exists. But we do have minds, and these minds can, very convincingly, seduce us into believing we can be somewhere else. We tend to let our minds lead us into fantasies of the future or perceived memories of the past, particularly at the times when we become uncomfortable with, or unaccepting of, what we think life is offering us in the moment.
Change towards openness, expansion, and abundance naturally unfolds out of this now. For us to appreciate it, we are called to allow our awareness to be present with this moment.
Being present can be scary if the unknown seems to create a threat. Our addiction to wanting to control life keeps our minds focused on thoughts about the past and thoughts about the future - a future that is actually a rehashing and rearranging of our thoughts about past events.
If it is true that our thoughts are powerful enough to create our lives, then it only stands to reason that our tendency to rehash the past in order to create our future means that we'll get various versions of the same old things. So although our lives change to a degree, it is actually just a recycling of the past, a holding onto the security of what we already know.
If deep changes are to happen in our lives, perhaps it calls for stepping into a place of letting go of what we already know and of what we think we want to learn. These may be the things we hold onto in an attempt to get what we think we want (which may significantly pale in comparison to what the universe would willingly provide us with). If we let go of trying to control our destiny with our thoughts, we may open to the unknown gifts of this now.
Perhaps the reason that all great intuitive inspirations, new inventions, cathartic releases, embodiments of joy, inspired guidance, and life-transforming changes come to us when we surrender to the unknown of the moment, is because the universe is a friendly place that supports our maximum potential.
Perhaps the unknown is our friend, a place where we can give up 'our knowing' in order to receive 'universal knowing'.
Perhaps there is no sane reason to fear the unknown of the moment. Maybe our attempts to control are based in fears that arise from our way of perceiving old traumas and our desire to avoid recreating similar ones. Perhaps our neurotic thinking patterns, by dancing us away from becoming aware of our presence in the moment, are keeping us from the salvation of now.
Yet the moment, forever patient, continues to wait for us. There is no hurry. It will not go away. When we get sufficiently tired of reliving our old patterns and truly want deep change instead, life's present moment will always be available to birth that change. So we can ask ourselves about any potential change that becomes available: "If not now, when?"
