A NEW DAY

This is the beginning of a new day.

GOD has given me this day to use as I will.

I can waste it, or I can use it for good.

But what I do today is important because I'm exchanging a day of my life for it.

Leaving in it's place, that which I have traded,

I want it to be good not evil, a gain not a loss, success not a failure.

And nor shall I ignore the price I paid for it.

Because tomorrow, is just a whole string of nows…

—- Lou Holtz

AT DAY’s END

" Is anybody happier because you passed his way?
Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?
The day is almost over, and its toiling time is through;
Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you?
Can you say tonight, in parting with the day that's slipping fast,
That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed?
Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said;
Does the man whose hopes were fading,
Now with courage look ahead?
Did you waste the day, or lose it? Was it well or sorely spent?
Did you leave a trail of kindness, or a scar of discontent?
As you close your eyes in slumber, do you think that God will say,
You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today?"

--- John Hall