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There are two days in every week about which we should not worry - two days whichshould be kept free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is yesterday, withall its mistakes and cares, faults and blunders. Yesterday has passed forever beyondour control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannotundo a single act we performed. We cannot erase a single word we said. Yesterdayhas gone.
The other day we should not worry about is tomorrow, with all its possibleadversities, its burdens, its large promises and poor performances. Tomorrow's sunwill rise either in splendour or behind a mask of cloud but it will rise. Until it does,we have no stake in tomorrow for it is yet unborn. That leaves only one day - today.Any person can fight the battles of one day. It is only when you add the burdens ofthose awful eternities, yesterday and tomorrow that we break down. It's not theexperience of today that drives people mad - it is the remorse and the bitterness forsomething which happened yesterday or the dread of what may happen tomorrow.Then let us journey together but one day at a time.
Taken from a letter in New Zealand Woman's Weekly August 2000.