One Day at a Time

  

One Day At A Time

Megan and Ashlee

   A country singer named Christy Lane turned Christian and become quite famous singing the song “One day at a Time”.  This song means a great deal to me because of some difficulties I have had in my life, and I would not have survived them had I spent my energy worrying about tomorrow or next week.  I will give one example:

      After our daughter Christine passed away, I couldn’t just walk away and leave her 8 children, so I stayed on doing what I could.  The Andersen family lived 2 hours from my home in Ogden, so I stayed at my daughter Emily’s house, just a block away from the Andersen's in a small bedroom in the basement, and would go over to Christine’s home each morning. One particular night,  I was not feeling well and I allowed my mind to worry about the future.  How long was I going to be there, a year, 5 years?  I became anxious and didn’t know where to turn so I turned to the Lord. In prayer I asked “How long am I going to need to be here?  When can I return home to North Ogden?  The answer that came to me was this: “Don’t go there, don’t think about it, and don’t worry about it.  You are here today.  Do the best you can and enjoy your grandchildren”.  That was it.  I followed that advice and from then on I would not allow my mind to worry even about the next day, I just took one day at a time.

     Little did I know at the time, the good Lord had a plan and was setting it all into place?  A wonderful woman was being prepared to step into this family and love and care for my grandchildren and son-in-law.  That advice has helped me since then when I was told that cancer had returned to my body with a vengeance.  All I ever have is one day at a time, and everything is in the Lord’s hands.  Here are the words to the song I have loved for a dozen years:

I'm only human; I'm just a woman
Help me believe in what I could be and all that I am
Show me the stairway
I have to climb
Lord for my sake
Teach me to take
One day at a time

One day at a time, sweet Jesus
That's all I'm asking from you
Give me the strength to do everything that I have to do
Yesterday's gone sweet Jesus
And tomorrow may never be mine
Help me today
Show me the way
One day at a time.

Could you remember
When you walked among men
Jesus, you know when you're looking below
It's worse now than then
Pushin' and shovin' crowd in your mind
Lord for my sake
Teach me to take
One day at a time

Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace. ~Author Unknown