KLOVE and the Great I AM

My girlfriend, bless her heart, has a fondness for the KLOVE radio program. For the most part, I tend to think of listening to the program as being a sort of Christian-lite experience. The music does not stir me like the Gospel music of my Bobby Jones Gospel collection and the dialogue rarely delves deeper than the "God is Love" mantra that I accepted long ago but find difficult to apply to some of the awful things I see happening in God's World.

However, the other morning, the DJ focused on God calling himself "I AM". The DJ mentioned that God did not say "I WAS", nor did God say "I WILL BE". God said "I AM". The DJ took this to imply that God is, always has been, and always will be, present in the moment and that we too should follow the example of God.

In my travels through the lessons of other faiths, I have found this notion of being present in the moment to be quite compelling and yet elusive. How does one stay in the moment, when so much from the past impacts that moment and so much of the future depends on what is done in the moment?

Also, for God it appears that time is irrelevant. For God, there is no beginning... there is no end. For we humans, on the other hand, time is relevant. Time appears to go in only one direction, and for us, as corporeal beings, there is a beginning and an all too close end.

I have not yet found the secret to being in a constant state of "I AM". I do try to enjoy the sunsets and the moonrises. I do try to smell the flowers and to lay on the grass. But more often than nought, I find myself looking into the past and hoping for the future.

Perhaps there are some of you who have found the ability to be "I AM". If so, please let me know how you achieved such a state and maybe share your secrets with us all.

P. S. Exodus 3:13-14 read:

"And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?

"And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you."