You may feel like caregiving is a balancing act–balancing caregiving with relationships, work, hobbies, and rest.
You’re also balancing your past, present and future.
For instance, does your past dictate how you act today? Meaning, because it didn’t work then, do you believe it won’t work now? Or, because you couldn’t do it then, are you convinced that you can’t do it now?
Do you worry so much about the future that you neglect the present? Do you focus so much on what could happen next week that you don’t see the blessings you have today? Are you dreading what could happen next year so that you can’t relax today?
It’s good to bring lessons learned from the past into the present. And, it’s important to take steps today to protect your (and your family’s) future.
But, always live in the present. You have today, right now, this moment. How will you use it?
How true!
Today will one day be the past….what happens today will be history in the making for someone to remember one day….
I read that is why they call it present moments…present is also another word for gift….
Its hard to find the gifts in this day to day life of ours. It is sometimes hard to find the balance….
I hope for a little while today whether your father is here or passed away, or your husband is sick or well somehow you find a gift in them.
June 20, 2010 twenty years from now will be history…believe me…if you doubt it, look through your photo albums….
We are all gifts to our carees….hopefully with that thought in mind we can balance a small present for ourselves as well.