Looking back, but only for a moment

So our conversation turned to weird haircuts we had as a child today at lunch.
Odd, yet not entirely unexpected.
Let's be honest: there's all some aspect  of our lives that we would just rather leave in mom's dusty old photo albums buried in the bottom of the closet.
But those memories seem to surface anyway.
Which got me thinking about the past.
In C.S. Lewis' book "The Screwtape Letters", 'affectionate uncle Screwtape' informs his nephew that "the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.  Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them."
That's intense.
We almost exclusively spend our entire lives getting ready for the mysterious 'future'.  Before school starts your parents are teaching you little bits of math, science, and English.  You get to grade school and you spend all your time getting ready for junior high.  Junior high preps you for high school and high school for college.  College makes you pay to prep you for the 'future' which by this point, becomes this unattainable goal that is spoken of in whispers in philosophy classes.
And this guy Lewis tells us that "The present is the point at which time touches eternity."
What up.
In John chapter 14, verses 18-20 Jesus says, "I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you.  Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me.  Because I live, you also will live.  In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you."
While we do look forward to Christ's return, my focus has to be on how he's here at this moment in my life and I HAVE to trust him with my life.

So I'll take a stroll down memory lane, but only for a moment. =)