| The Ministry of Comfort |
Chapter 13 |
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If we learn well this lesson of living just one day at a time, without anxiety for either yesterday or tomorrow, we shall have found one of the greatest secrets of Christian peace. That is the way God teaches us to live. That is the lesson both of the Bible and of nature. If we learn it it will cure us of all anxiety, it will save us from all feverish haste, and it will enable us to live sweetly in any experience.
“One day at a time! That’s all it can be;
No faster than that is the hardest fate;
And days have their limits, however we
Begin them too early and stretch them late.
“One day at a time! A burden too great
To be borne for two can be borne for one!
Who knows what will enter tomorrow’s gate?
While yet we are speaking all may be done.
“One day at a time–but a single day,
Whatever its load, whatever its length;
And there’s a bit of precious Scripture to say
That according to each shall be our strength.”
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