Try to take your days one by one as they come to you. The hard things of yesterday are past, and you are not asked to bear what to-morrow may have in store; so that the cross is really light when you take it bit by bit.
COMMENTS: What sane advice from a man who knew a thing or two about hardship! Often we multiply our hardship when we think about ongoing future problems. When we are sick we tend not to be able to imagine what it would be like to be well again or to have our energy back. When we face economic deprivation we tend to imagine that we will not see happier days.
Fr Doyle’s words today should give comfort to all those who suffer in any way. Let us follow his advice to live life bit by bit. We are not now asked to carry tomorrow’s burden. That burden may even be lighter than we think when it arrives. And when tomorrow’s burden arrives, today’s burden will have passed already.
Let us carry our cross day by day and bit by bit, consoled by the fact that we are never abandoned by our loving God.
What great and sensible advice Father Doyle offers in the above passage: one day at a time. Indeed we have only to live one moment at a time; God gives us the grace for this moment-as the day unfolds, His grace gives us the opportunity to respond accordingly and so fulfill His will.
Father Doyle, remind us daily that each day is enough for us to accept and appreciate. Each day with its gifts and grace so generously given to us by God Himself. May we use such time to the best of our ability.