“Tomorrow”

In Yellowstone National Park a sign advises, “Photograph as you go, you may never pass this way again.” Aren’t there so many things we wish we had on picture, tape or recorded! We constantly put off things until tomorrow that we should be enjoying today.

A psychologist concluded that 94% of us were simply enduring the present in expectation of something better tomorrow—waiting for this “miraculous something” which is to turn up tomorrow.

Here are three rules concerning each day:

1.       Commit something good to memory each day. Be alive! Learn something! Wisdom comes  a drop at a time. Read,  observe, watch! Look at scenery, watch people, evaluate yourself. In life there is not only a place to fill but a place to fulfill.

2. Look for something beautiful (good) each day. Make the best of a situation before it gets the best of you. Really it is not what the future holds, but who holds the future! There is beauty surrounding us.

3. Pass along kindness each day. It isn’t what lies behind us; it is not what lies before us—it is what lies within us that really counts. The heart of all training should be the training of the heart. Take good care of the present and the future will take good care of you.

  “Photograph as you go…..”

  —Charles Hodge