Now

If at times we can be concerned with faraway things and long term realities, we cannot invest too much time in them. They have limited impact or influence upon this day and the present need. We can give them moments but nothing more.

All reality is filtered through the importance of this day as it is being lived. The present makes demands that make past and future unavailable. Maybe such concentration of the present and close by is a factor in our relationship with God. Maybe God, at times, seems uninvolved in our sphere, a bit too remote to be important.