Thursday, November 5, 2009

        You are reading from the book
        Each Day a New Beginning

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

  —Simone Weil

The only lessons that matter for our lives at this time will come to us
today. Just as what we needed and were ready for yesterday came
yesterday, tomorrow insures more of the same. Concerning ourselves with
any other moment but the present prevents us from responding when "the
teacher appears."

In years gone by, we perhaps hung onto yesterday's problems. We may
still struggle to hang onto them. Or perhaps we try to see too far
ahead. But we are learning that there is a right time for all growth. A
right time for all experiences. And the right time may not fit our
timetable. What doesn't come our way today, will come when the time is
right. Each day we are granted just what is needed. We need not worry
about the future. It will offer us whatever rightly comes next, but it
can't do so until we have experienced these 24 hours before us.

There is wonder and joy awaiting me, each day. The growth I
experience is just what is needed at this time. I am a student, and the
teacher will appear.

         From Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for
Women by Karen Casey
© 1982, 1991 by Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. Published
1982. Second edition 1991. No portion of this publication may be
reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the
publisher

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