Okay, if you’re my age you probably think this is going to be about the Doobie Brothers, if you’re not my age you probably wondering what I’m talking about and who in the world the Doobie Brothers are.
Well, the point is not that popular song and group, but rather the realities of living minute by minute.
I think that living minute by minute is possible to do in more than one way. I remember my school days. Oh my, they were dreadful for me. It seems that I spent every minute of my grades 1-12 looking at the clock, usually positioned right over the teachers head, watching each and every minute pass, for twelve grueling years! In the early years it was just to get to recess, then lunch, afternoon recess and then the dismissal bell. Later it was the brief break between classes, then lunch and finally the dismissal. Living minute by minute in this case was not much fun. I was unable to appreciate those moments, save the brief and fleeting moments when someone’s paper airplane would fly by or a spitball sent by a friend would whack you on the head!
The days and weeks on the calendar seem to now pass by faster than those school day minutes.
We may, conversely, choose to live “in the moment.” Learning to appreciate the moment requires us to take something positive from it, which is hard to do if we’re looking for the negative.
I am actually speaking of known human behavior. If we walk into a room full of strangers, we almost immediately, and somewhat subconsciously, begin to measure up those strangers. Our most common method is to start by finding the things about others which we like to avoid. It seems our intellect tells us that one way to be safe is to assess and recognize negative traits in others and avoid them. We start with the most obvious and alarming things to us personally and work backwards from there. Once we’ve “eliminated” that risk factor we then set out to find the people who seem to present the least risk and then gravitate towards them.
How many times has this flawed methodology failed us? How often have we come to love someone we had at first written off or how often have we come to find little in common with someone which we initially felt less threatened by? Similarly, how many minutes have we let slip by unappreciated, looking past them as unimportant, flawed or unpleasant? Remembering that we are sharing each moment with Christ, may help us to be able to pause and find something valuable in it. Here’s wishing happy minutes to you all. Blessings!

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