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Originally Posted by Gennee
I have many bible verses that have blessed me but this one is my favorite:
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalms 118:24
I can't do anything about yesterday because it's gone. Today I began with a clean slate. How I choose to use it is up to me. God gives us all the same amount of hours. I have discovered how precious each day is. Tomorrow is not guaranteed to me.
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Genee,
This might seem like a digression, but, for me anyways, it isn't, so please bear with me.
Yesterday I led a class on "Locating God." It wasn't about religion, per se, but about exploring how/where we find a connection to God. One of the handouts I used was from the Quaker perspective about the the Presence of God.
Here are Thomas R. Kelly's words from
Testament of Devotion (1941):
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... we no longer live merely in time but we live also in the Eternal. The world of time is no longer the sole reality of which we are aware. A second reality hovers, quickens, quivers, stirs, energizes us, breaks in upon us and in love embraces us, together with all things, within himself. We live our lives at two levels simultaneously, the level of time and the level of the Timeless. …
The experience of Divine Presence changes all this familiar picture. There come times when the Presence steals upon us, all unexpected, not the product of agonized effort, as we live in a new dimension of life. …
In the immediate experience of the Presence, the Now is no mere nodal point between the past and the future. It is the seat and region of the Divine Presence itself. …
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The Friends offer another way to actualize this verse:
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalms 118:24