Sometimes, the concept of the future feels like a giant, looming mountain that we are trying to climb all at once. We spend so much energy worrying about next year, next month, or even next week, that we forget how we actually move through life. C.S. Lewis reminds us with such a clever, grounding perspective that the future isn't a sudden destination we crash into. Instead, it is a steady, rhythmic progression. It arrives at the exact same pace as our present moment, one sixty-minute hour at a time. This means that the future isn't something to fear or rush toward; it is simply the natural extension of the minutes we are living right now.

In our busy, modern lives, it is so easy to get caught up in the 'what ifs' of tomorrow. We skip over our morning coffee or ignore the sunset because our minds are already racing ahead to a deadline or a difficult conversation scheduled for next Tuesday. We treat the future like a separate entity, something far away and unpredictable. But if we look closely, the future is actually being built by the very breaths we are taking and the small, mundane tasks we are completing in this very hour. The rate of change is constant, and it is much more manageable than our anxiety leads us to believe.

I remember a time when I felt completely overwhelmed by a massive project I had to complete. I spent days staring at the calendar, paralyzed by the sheer amount of work ahead of me. I felt like I was running out of time before I had even started. Then, I took a moment to just sit and watch the clock. I realized that no matter how much I worried, the clock was only moving at its usual, steady pace. I couldn't skip the hours to get to the finish line, but I also didn't have to conquer the whole project in a single leap. I just had to navigate the sixty minutes I was currently in.

When we embrace this idea, the pressure starts to lift. We stop viewing the future as a daunting obstacle and start seeing it as a series of manageable, small steps. There is a certain peace in knowing that you don't need to leap into next month; you only need to inhabit this hour with intention. If you can handle this sixty-minute block, you are already successfully moving toward your future.

Today, I want to encourage you to take a deep breath and look at your clock. Instead of looking at the vast expanse of the weeks ahead, try to focus only on the hour you are currently inhabiting. Ask yourself how you can make this specific sixty-minute window kind, productive, or peaceful. You are already arriving at your future, one beautiful hour at a time.