Positive Affirmations for someone seeking to cherish the present moment:

I decide to observe my surroundings using my five senses.

I am grateful for my ability to see.

I am only needed here right now.

Today is a beautiful day, I appreciate it.

I am grateful for yesterday, excited for today, and hopeful for tomorrow.

I can smile, laugh, and/or cry when I need to.

I choose to shift my focus to what serves me best in the present moment.

I desire a healthy mindset, so I have one.

I accept what I have been blessed with.

There are many things to dance about, I choose to move my body in the ways it needs.

I capture photographs of the moment, remembering to cherish them now and later.

I am grateful for the rest I have acquired today.

I am happy to communicate with others.

I shower myself in kind words right now.

“Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

by J. C. Ryle

1. There is an undeniable zeal in some teachers of error–their “earnestness” makes many people think they must be right.

2. There is a great appearance of learning and theological knowledge–many think that such clever and intellectual men must surely be safe to listen to.

3. There is a general tendency to completely free and independent thinking today–many like to prove their independence of judgment by believing the newest ideas, which are nothing but novelties.

4. There is a wide-spread desire to appear kind, loving, and open-minded–many seem half-ashamed to say that anybody can be wrong or is a false teacher.

5. There is always a portion of half-truth taught by modern false teachers–they are always using scriptural words and phrases, but with unscriptural meaning.

6. There is a public craving for a more sensational and entertaining worship–people are impatient with the more inward and invisible work of God within the hearts of men.

7. There is a superficial readiness all around to believe anyone who talks cleverly, lovingly and earnestly, forgetting that Satan often masquerades himself as an angel of light (2 Cor. 11:14).

8. There is a wide-spread ignorance among professing Christians–every heretic who speaks well is surely believed, and anyone who doubts him is called narrow-minded and unloving.