Grasping Faith Blessings Now

You won­der why you wor­ried so much back a few years ago when you were tak­ing exams or rais­ing chil­dren. You wish now you had spent more ener­gies focus­ing on the tasks instead of wor­ry­ing about them. You even wish you could live those years over again know­ing then what you know now.
Some­day you will look back at today and won­der why you wor­ried at all. That is the way life works. It is a test of faith. Faith is liv­ing today with a con­fi­dent light­heart­ed­ness. You know you will look back at this day and won­der why you were so stressed, so why not just dump the stress alto­gether right now? That is faith. Know­ing what you know of the pat­terns of life, it makes no sense to worry about today or tomor­row. Some days may have been painful, but they worked out.
This is the illu­sion we face: We some­how think or fear that today will be uniquely dif­fer­ent — that grav­ity will sud­denly stop work­ing or the sun will go out. Maybe this is the day that I will not be able to han­dle every­thing. You know bet­ter, but you let these thoughts intim­i­date you all the same.
The bless­ings of faith have to do with grasp­ing the fact that you will be able to look back a year from now or even a cen­tury or mil­len­nium from now and won­der why you wor­ried. One day it dawns on you that life is indeed eter­nal. Yes, there will be try­ing times, but noth­ing comes to an end over them. You are not mea­sured by doing every­thing “right” but by trust­ing God in each minute. 
In the mean time, drop your fears. Stop your race against time. Ignore the secu­rity demands of your ego and just be for a while. Today is just another rota­tion of the earth. Work, won­der, play, sleep, eat — all have their place. Let them flow from one to the other with ease. Some­thing mag­nif­i­cent is going on. Do not miss it over your fears.