One day at a time

Very often I will get myself all tangled up in planning the next few days or events. 

By nature I am a planner and a very organized person. So it follows then that I am always looking past the present and on to the next thing.

But sadly, because of this behavior I am not in the now. In my head once this moment is here my brain is planning for the next.

It can be a very useful talent if I am involved in a project. I can be counted on to have my end done and finished up and then already thinking ahead about other things that might to be thought about and completed. 

However, too often, I can lose the joy of the moment because mentally I am not here. 

I do not want this talent to be taken away from me, and I do consider it a talent, but at the same time, I can not be dominated by the future, by my planning, by my organizing that I get overwhelmed when plans do not filter down the way I had planned them. 

Sometimes God throws up obstacles just to slow me down. Sometimes I have to pray and ask God to slow me down. 

Sometimes I need to remember the words of the song, "One day at a time."

One day at a time

I'm only human, I'm just a man/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, help me to take

One day at a time

One day at a time sweet Jesus

That's all I'm askin' of you

Just give me the strength

To do every day what I have to do

Yesterday's gone sweet Jesus

And tomorrow may never be mine

Lord, help me today, show me the way

One day at a time

Do you remember when you walked among men

Well Jesus you know

If you're lookin' below, it's worse now than then

Pushin' and shovin' and crowdin' my mind

So for my sake, teach me to take

One day at a time

One day at a time sweet Jesus

That's all I'm askin' of you

Just give me the strength

To do every day what I have to do

Yesterday's gone sweet Jesus

And tomorrow may never be mine

Lord, help me today, show me the way

One day at a time

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ALTERNATE 2nd VERSE:

Do you remember, when you walked among men

Well Jesus you know if you're looking below

It's worse now, than then

Cheating and stealing, violence and crime

So for my sake, teach me to take

One day at a time