The Gift of Today

It's very easy to raise children in the future. To worry about who they'll become, about what will happen, about whether they'll make the right choices ten years from now. But your children don't need you in some imagined future — they need you today. This day. This dinner. This game you almost said no to because you were tired. Real presence, in the present moment, is one of the greatest gifts a mother can give. God made this day — not tomorrow, not next week. This one. Look at the children around you right now and see the gift they represent. Don't let anxiety about the future steal the joy of the present. They are growing up right now. Be here.