Circle of thought

Thoughts, thoughts. Some I want to think, others not so much. Why do I think them? Are they significant? Can I tell myself not to think? Sometime I wish I had the ability to shut them off. I don't want to analyze every aspect of my life. I just want to live! I want to take things moment by moment, interaction by interaction. What's happening now - the conversation, class, message, book, game - that is the only thing that is happening. It's not what happened, it's not what might happen; it is current. I desire to be intentionally present exactly where I am. Worry is pointless. Circles of thought get me nowhere. Analyzing past events give no answers nor new evidence. I can think all I want. I won't change what I know, what others know, or what others will do. Change comes with action. But who changes? Do I change things? Do others change things? Or are they changed? Am I changed? Who does the acting here? Of course, I only control myself and my actions, no one else's. The Lord works in me. He has prepared before hand the good works I am to do. I don't know the future, so the only works I need to concern myself with are the present ones. Daily, minute by minute, I am living, breathing, doing. God is with me. He works through me. His Spirit refines me. And yet...... I have moments of discontent. My thoughts wander........ Where are they reigned in? God's Word. He is the One acting. He changes others, and He changes me. Colossians 1:11-12 "May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light." God has qualified me, through Jesus life, death and resurrection, I am able to share in the inheritance. I have everlasting life in Heaven! Not only that, but I am qualified to share that Good News with the people around me. Moment by moment. Interaction by interaction.