You Are What You Were And Not What You Will Be

Mouthful isn't it, and it's the sum of
what we are, we aren't what we

were, but we aren't what we will
be, either, we are in the present,
and that's the only place we can be.
That's a tough fact of life,
and yet as we exist at that moment, 
the moments that built up to
it, have to be considered, else
we'd never grasp any newness
to life.  However we cannot live
"back there," it doesn't exist,
and we can't live for a future that
isn't existing either.  Plan for
it, anticipate it, if you must, certainly
it's interesting to try, but
ultimately, what we have is right
here, right now, from both of
those other perspectives.  It's not just the past, but also what
you believe you want to have as a future that contribute to
the person we see standing there, right now.

That would be an exercise in semantics if it weren't for the
fact that we who live out our faith know that we place a very
significant amount of "hope," in a future far different from the
existence we are in, right now.  What Christ spent a good deal
of time saying was that such shouldn't be the case, you should
be, right now, as you plan to be, then.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMTAhdcoVhE

This is why my life has become a pursuit,
first, of service, literally asking people,
what can I do for you? Sounds silly, almost,
doesn't it? But my experience bears out that
often people do need some help with something,
but they don't want to make people feel like
the are obligated to help, and yet, they need
help, but they don't ask. So why put them
through that, just volunteer your service,
when you do, several things take place, what
might you surmise those would be?