Many people living in one day at a time recovery understand the importance of being present and living in the now. In as such we can look at the now as an apple orchard. While living in the now we saved enough money to buy an apple orchard. The apple orchard itself was an undertaking from the past. Someone or something at some point had to have planted it and now that we are its care-givers we take care of it in the present. In doing so the orchard stays healthy and is capable of bearing good apples. In doing so we looked forward to the harvest in the future. What was once the future will soon enough become the now, and in that now we harvest the apples. What we cannot use in the now we will preserve in such things as apple sauce, apple juice, apple jelly and other such things. If our apple orchard bears much fruit we can sell much of our harvest or we might even have a pick your own arrangement where people can buy what they pick. In all situations is the reality of the work in the now. It is the present reality. Peace.
