An hour is too short, a year too long. Days are the bite-size - TopicsExpress



          

An hour is too short, a year too long. Days are the bite-size portions of life, the God-designed segments of life management. Eighty-four thousand heartbeats. One thousand four hundred and forty minutes. A complete rotation of the earth… Both a sunrise and a sunset. A brand-spanking-new, unsoiled, untouched, uncharted, and unused day! A gift of twenty-four unlived, unexplored hours. And if you can stack one good day on another and another, you will link together a good life. But here’s what you need to keep in mind. You no longer have yesterday. It slipped away as you slept. It is gone. You’ll more easily retrieve a puff of smoke. You can’t change, alter, or improve it. Sorry, no mulligans allowed. Hourglass sand won’t flow upward. The second hand of the clock refuses to tick backward. The monthly calendar reads left to right, not right to left. You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. Unless you accelerate the orbit of the earth or convince the sun to rise twice before it sets once, you can’t live tomorrow today. You can’t spend tomorrow’s money, celebrate tomorrow’s achievements, or resolve tomorrow’s riddles. You have only today. This is the day the Lord has made. Live in it. You must be present to win. Don’t heavy today with yesterday’s regrets or acidize it with tomorrow’s troubles. —Every Day Deserves a Chance Father, you give life to us in daily portions. In your wisdom you know that twenty-four hours are sufficient for us to manage. Yet it is so easy for us to fret and fuss about what happened yesterday or to worry and fear what might happen tomorrow. You don’t want us to live with guilt for failures of the past or with dread for the future. Teach us to live in the present. Remind us that you give us the wisdom and strength to live one day at a time, amen. He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths. Isaiah 2:3 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Philippians 1:21 A man’s steps are of the Lord; how then can a man understand His own way? Proverbs 20:24
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 06:44:04 +0000

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