Thoughts on The Shack

In reading The Shack, on pg. 144 they talk about living in the present, not the past or the future. I feel like often I do that, in forgetting the past and refusing to worry about the future, but people around me won't let me, in particular with my personal life. But what do I know. Maybe I'm just disillusioned. Is it a good thing or not to be the type of person to say "everything's gonna be all right" when they might be going horribly wrong? And what is the definition of wrong? How DO you balance living in the present with a world that requires otherwise?

And HOW, someone tell me HOW, to tell the difference between rational fears and imagined fears!!

I think I'm calling Fr. Pau tonight.