Now is the time.

“Forever is composed of nows.”  (Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886)

I suppose that one of the points to be taken away from this comment by the famous Belle of Amherst is that we shouldn’t always be living for the future.  Not that we shouldn’t prepare for the future at all, but that we only really ever live — and only really ever will live — in successive present moments.  So we shouldn’t defer goodness, truth, and beauty for some indefinite time yet (and always) to come.

So the prophets, too, have taught:

“We are now living part of eternity,” said Elder Ezra Taft Benson in 1971.

“We are just as much in eternity now,” said Brigham Young in 1874, “as we shall be millions of years hence.”