I woke up one morning wondering about my life as it is now. I was surprised when my awareness of my present experience thrust me into the past. I reflected, I admit regretfully, on lost opportunities to be in the moment, instead of attempting to live my life in the ethereal future. I realized that I missed the present moment in my fight with time. Woody Allen once said that “life is what happens when we’re busy making plans.” The battle, more like a war with time has been one launched in my own mind. The concept of time is constructed in the mind in a failed attempt to control our life experiences. Controlling time is much like boxing the air. Believing that time is a viable vehicle for our desires and future, is fighting a losing battle with a mental sandcastle that only exists because we painstakingly build it. Like most sandcastles, it washes away, as our imaginary grip on time renders us defeated, weary and stressed. Here’s a mental knot of time that we may have difficulty untying:

I use my time to prepare for some future time when I can take the time to relax and spend time with myself and the people I love. I don’t have time to waste. Time is limited and scarce and precious. Give me enough time and I will make time to be with you. But, at this time, I’m too busy to spend the time. I only have a little time left before I run out of time. Time is short and my lifetime is short, so I have to make the best of the time that I have to live. I have to use my time wisely. Time waits for no one. There’s never enough time in the day to do everything I have to do, but some time in the future, I’ll have time.
Time flies. I don’t remember where all the time went. I was spending time doing something that was important. I don’t remember what it was. It must have been important …at the time. I don’t remember…

Now is all that we ever experience of life and love. All else is a constructed reality that continually offers frustrating, crazy making, twists and knots that cloud our awareness of who we really are. We are timeless spiritual beings, expressing who we are as we love and touch the core of our being. We acknowledge who we are being with love, compassion, kindness, and breath in the present moment.
Be still. Lay down your defensive armor of limited time. All is possible now. All is well now. All is as it should be now. All is love; be that love now.