One Day At A Time

 

One day at a time,

with its failures and fears,
With its hurts and mistakes,

with its weakness and tears,
With its portion of pain

and its burden of care;
One day at a time

we must meet and must bear.

One day at a time

to be patient and strong,
To be calm under trial

and sweet under wrong;
Then its toiling shall pass

and its sorrow shall cease;
It shall darken and die,

and the night shall bring peace.

One day at a time ---

but the day is so long,
And the heart is not brave,

and the soul is not strong,
O Thou pitiful Christ,

be Thou near all the way;
Give courage and patience

and strength for the day.

Not yesterday's load

we are called on to bear,
Nor the morrow's uncertain

and shadowy care;
Why should we look forward

or back with dismay?
Our needs, as our mercies,

are but for the day.

One day at a time,

and the day is His day;
He hath numbered its hours,

though they haste or delay.
His grace is sufficient;

we walk not alone;
As the day, so the strength

that He giveth His own.

 

~ Annie Johnson Flint