Oh Crap! – Musings of an Unperfect Mommy

Daily Bread

November 18, 2016

I have been seeing this a lot in the books and articles I’ve been reading lately. Too many times not to think Someone is trying to tell me something.

It’s about that one day at a time thing – not worrying about tomorrow where we don’t know what’s going to happen (which makes it somewhat scary) and not living in yesterday because that’s done (and no there is no time machine to go back and right it, but that’s a different post for another day). I never thought about it before, but Jesus said to ask for our DAILY bread – not tomorrow’s or the next year’s (although we can) – but today’s. One book by Kathleen Norris referenced the manna in the desert in the Old Testament. The Israelites were only to take enough to last one day and not be greedy and take more for future days. To make sure they didn’t, God made the manna with a very short shelf life as people soon found out. Hehe – nice one, God. :-) I’d never thought to equate the two before – the manna and daily bread – but it makes perfect sense.

And today, lo and behold, I turned to EWTN and saw Fr. Leo Clifford talking about the same thing – live and love only for each day. He also said something that made me pause to think – what would happen if you showed a doctor all the patients he would have to care for in his lifetime, or to a homemaker a mountain of dishes she would have to wash. How discouraged they would be! No, we need to take each day as it comes and not worry about the rest. I know right now that’s difficult to think about, but even Jesus said not to worry about tomorrow for today has enough trouble of it’s own.

So, I’m going to do this – pray only for my daily needs. I’ve never done that before – I always kind of skip over today and move right tomorrow probably missing the more immediate needs of the moment.

Maybe you’ll want to pray that way too – maybe it will keep us living more in the moment and taking less for granted and giving more each day. Maybe I’ll finally learn to enjoy each day for what it is and live it more fully. I can only hope.

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