Fresh Starts

Each day is a storehouse given you

Fresh every morn from God's hand;

Do you stop to think of this

When at its door you stand?

Twenty-four empty, waiting hours,

All ready for you to fill with

Worthwhile thoughts and worthwhile deeds

And service, if you will.

You're given a chance to store

Away treasures of love and joy,

And satisfaction of work well done

That time cannot destroy.

So put your best into all your day

With eyes opened wide to see, and

Eager hands stretched out to grasp

Each opportunity.

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God knows we need fresh starts. He gently (and frequently) reminds us throughout Scripture to take things one day at a time. "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble,” says Matthew 6:34. Fretting doesn’t accomplish anything anyway (aside from deepening those frown lines).

God commands us to give others fresh starts, too. We’re to forgive our fellow human beings when they hurt us, not seven times, but seventy times seven. And when we forgive, we don’t keep track of the count, so the idea is to keep forgiving, just like God keeps forgiving us.

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