ONE UPWARD LOOK EACH DAY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 20, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 16.

ONE UPWARD LOOK EACH DAY.

EVERY day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is a world made new, You who are weary of sorrow and sinning, Here is a beautiful hope for you, A hope for me and a hope for you.

All the past things are past and over, The tasks are done and the tears are shed, Yesterday’s error let yesterday cover; Yesterday’s wounds, which smarted and bled, Are healed with the healing that night has shed.

Let them go, since we cannot relive them, Cannot undo and cannot atone; God in his mercy forgive them and blot them, Only the new days are our own; To-day is ours and ours alone.

Every day is a fresh beginning, Listen my soul to the glad refrain; And spite of old sorrow and older sinning, And puzzles forecasted and possible pain, Take heart with the day and begin again. —Selected.