| The Secrets of a Beautiful Life |
Chapter 19 |
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At the close of His wonderful talk about worry, our Lord gives us a wonderful secret. He tells us that we should keep the fences up between the days. We must not bring tomorrow’s cares back into today. The morrow must look to its own matters. When its cares come it will be soon enough to take them up. This is a golden lesson — living by the day. We should learn it.
“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.”
He who learns the lesson, living without worrying, has mastered life. He is ready then to live sweetly and most effectively. It is said that the electro-dynamo is well-nigh perfect in its conservation of energy. Ninety-five percent of the force it generates is utilized — goes into light or power. If we can learn so to live so that only five percent of our energy is expended in friction or needless waste, we shall have learned indeed, in one sense at least, to make the most of our life. Many people have not learned to live in this economical way. They waste in anxious care what they ought to use in lighting the world with their peace, or helping others with their strength. For nothing wastes life’s energies more rapidly and more needlessly than worry.
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