I AM

A dear friend passed along the following poem which I would like to share:

I was regretting the past and fearing the future.
Suddenly my Lord was speaking:
“My name is I AM”
He paused.
I waited. He continued,

“When you live in the past
with its mistakes and regrets,
it is hard. I am not there.
My name is not I WAS.

When you live in the future,
with its problems and fears,
it is hard. I am not there.
My name is not I WILL BE.

When you live in this moment
it is not hard. I am here.
My name is I AM.”

I thought it was so appropriate for this blog. Isn't it interesting that no one names God? He names himself. And when he names himself it is with the words "I AM". God is not just sitting out somewhere in the future waiting for me to get to where he is...nor is he peering at me from the past clucking his tongue at all the wrong things I've done. He is fully present in my current reality and he's not impatient with me nor is he anxious about what I might do or might not do. What I sense in the fullness of his presence is an intense love. More on this later...