One day at a time

I’m catching up with someone occasionally at the moment, who is going through one of life’s more challenging moments. I am sure I have said it to them, and I know that they have said it to me, that they just take one day at a time. I got to thinking about “one day at a time” and wondering if that is the best way to make it through such times, or whether perhaps we need to look further ahead, and think bigger scope, like 1 Peter 1: 3-9. Perhaps when times are dark and we can’t see past the immediate circumstances, we simply have to take one day at a time. So, for then:

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy,

until nightfall.

Anyone can do his work, however hard,

for one day.

Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely,

till the sun goes down.

And this is all that life really means.- Robert Louis Stevenson

We have each day to be faithful for the one short day, and long years and a long life will take care of themselves without the sense of their length or their weight ever being a burden.

- Andrew Murray