10 Love and faithfulness meet together;
righteousness and peace kiss each other.
11 Faithfulness springs forth from the earth,
and righteousness looks down from heaven. -- Psalm 85:9-11
Oswald Chambers writes:
"The nature of everything involved in the life of God in us is only discerned when we have been through it and it is in our past."
For all that might be said about the holiness of living "in the moment" -- i.e. not worrying about tomorrow, not regretting the past, just being grateful for what one has, etc. -- there is a certain blindness that is present in the present. It is difficult to have enough perspective to see the present moments we're living in the scope and magnitude they actually occupy without the benefit of some hindsight, or for that matter anticipation for where events are going. Sometimes events feel huge at the time we're going through them only to find them to be virtually insignificant later, or vice versa.