The songwriter said -- "Yesterday's gone, sweet Jesus, and tomorrow may never be mine" ---
The poet said -- "All I Have Is Now" ---
"I do not have the yesterdays; for they are past and gone.
I could not change them if I would, since they have traveled on.
I cannot cancel out their ills; increase the joys they gave --
For they are gone; their memory is all that I can save.
I do not have the promise of the light of one tomorrow.
I cannot order future joys -- evade oncoming sorrow.
And sooner than I think may come the ending of the way.
I cannot count on what may be -- I only have today.
I have this present golden hour, and that is all I ask;
For if I live this hour for God, then I am at my task.
This hour -- and then the next one -- and each hour He may allow --
Oh, let me live them all for Him! For all I have is now."
-- Lois Eades
We are reminded in the Epistle of James: "...ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away."
"So help me today -- show me the way -- one day at a time"!
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