Here and Now

This is your card reading for Monday, August 22nd/16.  Your card today skimmed out of the 'Wisdom of the Oracle' deck, authored by Colette Baron-Reid.  Your card is 'Here and Now', and Colette's message for the card is this:
"ESSENTIAL MEANINGS:  Being fully present in the moment; living one day at a time.
THE ORACLE'S MESSAGE:  Everything happens in the now, in the present.  Only THIS moment counts.  You have what it takes to handle anything today if you let go of the need to look into the future or reflect on the past.  Be present and notice what is going on right now. This very moment has the potential for you to create miracles in your life.
PROSPERITY MESSAGE:  What you are working on is golden, and your efforts will leave a powerful legacy.  Focus not on meeting a goal in the far-off future but on creating your dream now releasing your desire for an outcome and owning that it already exists.  It will appear in the material world as if by magic.  Claim your prosperity now. The essence is more important than the form.  When you are immersed in prosperous thoughts, you automatically tune in to a sense of timelessness and unlimited potential  You can 'act as if' in spite of the temporary outer conditions.  You are prosperous at this moment.  What you think now becomes your reality.  Stay present.
PROTECTION MESSAGE:  Whenever you find your mind drifting into the past, wondering if things could have or should have been better--or whenever you find yourself longing for the good old days---you leak power.  The same is true of looking too far ahead and hoping the future will provide you with certainty.  Driven by ambition, you might wander too long in a place with no substance and forget that you are HERE today.  The past and future are illusions.  Whenever you leave the present moment, you're disconnecting from your inherent power to manifest your reality with true substance.  Neither past nor future can give you what you need.  NOW is all that counts.  Come back from these eternities and be here now. All will be well, and miracles appear as if by magic in the perfect timing of Spirit!"

My message for you today is this:
It is often said that your point of power is in the NOW.  In other words, all you can truly do anything about is this very moment in time. There are two distinct messages that are presenting for you today in regards to 'Here and Now'. 
For one thing: ruminating about the past or worrying about the future are ineffective.  This doesn't mean that you can't learn from the past, or look to the future...but, in terms of ACTION, your point of power is in the NOW.  This is NOT an irresponsible way to approach your life---quite the opposite.  What is being implied here is not that you merely let life happen to you!  Be proactive!  Take appropriate action here and now in order to create what you desire.  I have shared here that I have a speaking engagement booked for Sept. 11th. Of course, there is preparation involved in being a responsible presenter, and so I need to take action (in a way that works for me) in order to be well-rehearsed when that day comes. Yet, if I choose to dwell in the past, to a time when I wasn't particularly pleased with my delivery at a certain event that I was public speaking at; or if I choose to project my attention to the future and focus upon the anxiety I will likely be feeling just prior to speaking...I have then rendered myself ineffective in this moment.  Rather, my POWER in this moment is in being HERE in this moment and in creating the message that I wish to share at that event. I can indeed carry forward the lessons I learned from the past speaking engagement (and others at which I was actually pleased with my delivery).  I can understand that it is impossible for me to accurately project into the future exactly how this speaking experience will play out until I am actually IN THAT MOMENT, so there is no point 'worrying' about that, either. All I can affect, when the time comes for me to speak publicly at IAD, is how I choose to approach THAT MOMENT.  
There is also another message to be shared today in regards to the 'Here and Now' card. We were just discussing as a family yesterday, how societally, people are seldom 'in the now', with the advent of Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, etc.  Often times---even as someone is in the middle of a wonderful experience---rather than simply being in the moment and fully EMBRACING the moment; they are taking action to post it on Facebook or 'Share' it in some other way on social media.  My niece wisely stated, "I'd rather just truly enjoy what I'm doing, rather than be distracted from it by 'Sharing' or 'posting' about it at the time!"  Yes!  There is nothing wrong with wanting to share your joys, and even your sorrows, and there can be great satisfaction and support in doing so.  But allow yourself to first fully experience the moment!  Don't be distracted from the moment...you will never have that exact moment again, so be fully present for it! 
Each moment in time is indeed a gift that we are given, and to live your life from an empowered stance means to choose consciously how you will utilize that moment.  All we truly have is the 'here and now'. Have you heard the saying, "Take care of today…tomorrow will take care of itself."?  Your message is that the way in which you approach 'today' will impact tomorrow.  
Blessed be...