Carnival Prize

I was sitting on the toilet reading a Forbes magazine. In it I saw an ad selling business analytic software. It was simple with not much verbiage. It said:

Goldfish have a memory span of 3 seconds.
They can't see the past, much less the future.
But you can. With proven business intelligence and analytic software.....



Those first two lines sparked my thinking a little. I thought to myself, maybe it's not so bad to have no memory of the past and not much thought of the future. It'll be like "living in the now." Carpe Diem kind of thing. I know many of you are thinking, you need the past to learn from and you need the future to make plans. I guess. But if you really have faith in God or the Holy Spirit (or angels) or whatever, He or They will be able to guide you in the right direction. In the book "A Course In Miracles," we're asked to live our lives like this. Let go of your grievances from the past, your worries of the future, have complete and unswerving faith in the Holy Spirit, let Him guide you, and everything's gonna be alright!

When I think about this, I realized that doing things on my own hasn't brought me that far. It's actually been a struggle-- even though my peoples would say I'm living pretty laid back. Yeah, compared to them. But I think there's an easier and better way. Now, I'm trying to let myself let go. I'm handing over the steering wheel to Somebody I trust and I'll just enjoy the ride.