We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that "time shall be no more" means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.

I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory is never like that. It makes hills of feeling in collapsed hours, a scene of enclosure made all precious by its frame.