Or, What Happened Yesterday????
A last minute event sort of ruined all my plans Yesterday. If my short term memory serves me correctly, my time was planned – it almost seemed that every minute had a task to accomplish and a goal to reach, and that included the travel time between Point A and Z. There was a little room for distraction, but not much. Then those pesky unplanned but necessary little events crowded the schedule, ran over the time constraints, so some things are left undone and get moved to Today.
I am pretty confident that I can control my present schedule enough to not let the little foxes spoil the vine of my task lists!
Fortunately, there is a Today that I can re-task and re-schedule. Some of Yesterday will cross over into today with the hope that it will not bleed into Tomorrow because it looks busy enough!
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Sometimes a revolving mismatch of time segments that cannot seem to find a proper place to anchor to a clock and find a little check mark beside to indicate a completed task.
If you focus on Yesterday, and too many of us have, then you may enjoy this Lost and Found advertisement.
“Lost – yesterday,
somewhere between sunrise and sunset,
two golden hours,
each set with sixty diamond minutes.
No reward is offered,
for they are gone forever.”
~Horace Mann
We have all heard the saying, “Yesterday is History. Today is the Present. Tomorrow is a Blessing.” This is the truth! Yesterday is History. There is no H.G. Wells Time Machine that allows you to reverse the forward march of time and take you back to what happened Yesterday so you can try to amend the outcomes. You cannot undo the mistakes or rewrite the events! They are what they are, or as a friend is attempting to undo a favorite saying of his, “It is what it is.”
Let me share a little thought with you. In the book of Job, one of his consolers says something that is profound, but only if you are willing to think it through.
For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
for our days on earth are a shadow.
(Job 8:9 ESV)
My analysis is simple. We are a product of all our Yesterdays, and all of our life is but as fleeting as a shadow – it creeps across the landscape like a shadow but is rapidly approaching the end. We cannot exist in our yesterday! However. We most certainly pay for the consequences of our actions back then. Regardless. We know nothing.
Can you put a value to what Yesterday was all about? Or was it simply a wasted part of your Today's review that you will moan about when viewed as History? Share on XRoy Clark sings a country-flavored song called, “Yesterday”, through which he bemoans the wasted time and effort of his younger “yesterdays.” Most of our Yesterdays do not consider the future. No one plans on being sick, or being forced to move, or losing a close friend or loved one, or having an accident, or even missing an important event. Yesterdays are full of the historical present and that which needs to be accomplished now. Even if it is full of time-wasters! At some point, you will leave Yesterday behind. What did it cost you? Get ready to pay Today and Tomorrow.
It’s somewhat like J. Wellington Wimpy asking for money for a hamburger Today and he will gladly repay you on Tuesday. (Popeye reference!) Of course, Tuesday is in some future time of Tomorrow.
The closing words to Clark’s song? “The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young.”The problem is that many want to relive Yesterday. Remember. It’s History. Let’s not sit in disbelief of yesterday, struggling to get a start on today, and wishing tomorrow was already here. Today. And it will soon become Yesterday.
“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.” ~Frank Lloyd Wright
Oh… And the image for this post comes from a little music box that has John Lennon’s song. Remember it? Yesterday…all my troubles seemed so far away… 1965, back in my yesterday of just hitting the double digits of life.
And in the daily opening thought of the singer Charlie Daniels, “Let’s make Today Count!”