Peace, joy, sorrow, loss, gain, sickness and death are all promised to arrive at their appointed moment.  And how we would love to know the day they are to appear.  We would certainly greet each one with a bountiful table filled with preparation.  But who can know?

We are given one moment we can reliable say we know.  We call that moment “now”.   We could not have predicted precisely what would be upon us “now”.   And if we consider what is yet to appear, can we predict what will be?

Let us allow God to prepare us.  Did worry help us arrive at this moment?  Or did it siphon off energy we could have used more diligently somewhere else?

How would this moment be if we had simply believed our way to it?   Having arrived full of joy, might we have encountered a different “now”?

Peace and joy do not ever have to leave the “now”.   If the living God is ours.