| The Ministry of Comfort |
Chapter 13 |
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In this way, too, doing faithfully the work of this day, we shall best prepare for tomorrow. One day’s duty slighted or neglected prepares confusion or overburdening for the next. The days are all woven together in God’s plan, each one following the one before, and fitting into the one coming after it. Each takes up the work which the day before brought to its feet, and carries it forward to deliver it to the one which waits. A marred or empty day anywhere spoils the web, losing its thread.
“Not merely what we are,
But what we were and what we are to be,
Make up our life–the far days each a star,
The near day’s nebulae.
. . . . . . .
“But each day is a link
Of days that pass, and never pass away;
For memory and hope–to live, to think.”
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