Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
There are three days-yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Each person in the world lives in one of these three days. Some are living in the present, some in the past, and some in the future. Where we are living with respect to time has a great influence upon our lives.
Those who live in yesterday are living on memories. Yesterday is gone forever. We can never recall it. Other people live in tomorrow. Their joys are the joys of anticipation, not of realization. True, anticipation has it's real joys, but we should not picutre a tomorrow so bright that it obscures today. We should not exalt tomorrow so much that today loses its meaning.
Our lives are wholly made of todays. Let us live in the time that is ours; make the best of it while we may. Let us enjoy its joys and do its work. Let us live to the full today, giving to the past and to the future only what is justly theirs and only what will profit us in the giving.
Yes, today will pass and tomorrow will come, and when tomorrow comes we shall have tomorrow's strength for its needs. Let us live today, in the strenght that God gives, and not permit the shadows of yesterday or forebodings for tomorrow to hide the sunshine and beauty and gladness that come from trust and obedience today.

Charles Wesley Naylor
from:
The Secret of the Singing Heart
copyright 1954