231113 This Day

This Day


Where is it that you place your gaze?

In day you're in or yesterdays?

Or is it that you fix your eyes

On things ahead - the future's prize?


 Do you look at past with regret?

Or focus on what is not yet?

Might live your days each as they come

Accepting life as total sum?


Or maybe as each day's begun

You've scattered focus on each one 

Past, present, future all collide

Not quite sure how to think inside


The past has memories to spare

But no one can keep living there

Though nice to reminisce a bit

Can't wallow in regrets of it


And future can seem bleak or bright

But, thinking 'bout it day and night

Won't cause it somehow to appear 

Or alleviate the things you fear


Tomorrow's never promised you 

And yesterday's already through 

The only time you have for sure

Is gift of today to live for


So celebrate the day you're in

Don't wait til later, let's begin


Dear Lord, I praise you for this day

No matter what it brings my way

The joyous times, and even strife

For they are all a part of life

Help me to see each single hour

As gifts given through divine power

I praise you for each blessed minute

May you be glorified within it

And though the past will always be

My future's in eternity

So until heaven's  present tense

I'll no longer sit on the fence

Of what was, what is, and what will be

Instead, live this one day fully

And, Father, Abba, may I fill

Each day with doing just your will

Amen


Matthew 6:34

Therefore, do not be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself, sufficient for the day is its own trouble 


Proverbs 16:13

Commit your way to the LORD, and your plans will be established 


Jeremiah 29:11

 For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not evil, to give you a future and a hope 


Psalm 118:24

This is the day that the LORD  has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it


Philippians 4:6, 19

Proverbs 19:21, 16:9

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