Being present

"The past is not dead.  In fact, it's not even past." William Faulkner.

If one reads self-help literature at all, one cannot avoid the advice to live in the present.  In listening to a Marianne Williamson tape in the car, she said the reason God does not reveal the future is because there is only now.  hmmm   Hard to get my mind around.  How much of your time do you spend regretting something in the past; or dreading or imagining something in the future?  What if the future is completely dependent upon the choices we make in the now?  A better way, I might suggest, is to grieve and make atonement for the mistakes of the past; to focus our attention on the present and make the best possible choices here; and to trust that the future will unfold naturally from the choices we make right now.  Perhaps our only task is to be aware of the present and to enjoy it.  Now.