Should you be worried?
There are two days in every week that we should not worry (and Saturday is not necesarily one of them!)-days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.
One of these days is YESTERDAY with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. YESTERDAY has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back YESTERDAY. We cannot undo a single act we performed. We cannot erase a single word we said. YESTERDAY is gone.
One of my favorite inspirational writers, Og Mandino, shares the commitment we should make in two of his books (The Greatest Salesman in the World and The Greatest Secret in the world):
“I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?”
The other day we should not worry about is TOMORROW with its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise and poor performance. TOMORROW is also beyond our immediate control. Why should we throw now after maybe?
TOMORROW’s sun will rise either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise! Until it does, we have no stake in TOMORROW for it is as yet unborn.
That leaves only one day: TODAY. Anyone can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when you and I add the burdens of those overwhelming days YESTERDAY & TOMORROW that we break down. It is not the experience of TODAY that drives us mad, it is remorse or bitterness for something happened YESTERDAY or the dread of what TOMORROW may bring.
Let’s choose to live just one day at a time and choose to make it the best day possible.
To paraphrase the biblical quote from Matthew which says “Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof” lets say “Sufficient for the day is the joy thereof.”
