"Now is not as empty"

A friend passed this quote to me this morning. It resounded with my current struggles to rest in the now. May you enjoy it:

"The contemplative secret is to learn to live in the now. The now is not as empty as it might appear to be or that we fear it may be. Try to realize that everything is right here, right now.When we're doing life right, it means nothing more than it is right now, because God is in this moment in a nonblaming way.When we are able to experience that, taste it and enjoy it, we don't need to hold on to it. The next moment will have its own taste and enjoyment."
-- Richard Rohr

I often hang on tightly to the now, fearing losing it. I am challenged to trust in the goodness and providence of future "now's".

May our "now's" of today be filling...