“Lord, my heart is not proud; my eyes are not haughty. I don’t concern myself with matters too great or too awesome for me to grasp. Instead, I have calmed and quieted myself, like a weaned child who no longer cries for its mother’s milk. Yes, like a weaned child is my soul within me. O Israel, put your hope in the Lord.” (Psalm 131:1-3 NLT)
If I did not simply live from one moment to the next, it would be impossible for me to keep my patience.
I can see only the present, I forget the past and I take good care not to think about the future. We get discouraged and feel despair because we brood about the past and future.
It is such folly to pass one's time fretting, instead of resting quietly on the heart of Jesus.
-- Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897), quoted in “A Guide to Prayer for All God's People” by Rueben P. Job and Norman Shawchuck
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