From the book “The Power of Stillness:”
“In the final talk of his reign, the ancient King Benjamin suggests remarkably to his people that God is “preserving you from day to day, by lending you breath, that ye may live and do according to your own will, and even supporting you from one moment to another” (Mosiah 2:21).
Did you hear that? Lending us breath so we can live and move moment by moment. Does that sound like a God who is close to you?
For Saints, God is the Great I Am, not only the Great I Was of Will Be— a God who lives for us in the here and now.
In contrast we have found that when our hearts are longing for the future or our minds are preoccupied with the past, we are also (almost automatically) quite distant from God. As soon as we recenter and connect again with the present details of our own experience—here and now—it’s not uncommon to also find a renewed awareness of the God we worship: the Great I Am with You Always.
It’s in this very (present) moment that God meets us. Could this be an explanation for the sweet and “unsuspected power of the present moment” experienced by so many in the secular mindfulness community?
Whatever the case, mindfulness can help remind us that a “return to His presence,” in a very real and practical and daily sense, could be sooner than anticipated . . . as soon as the next breath. ~ Jacob Z. Hess, Carrie L. Skarda, Kyle D. Anderson, Ty R, Mansfield, The Power of Stillness (Deseret Book, 2019), 103-4
