Yesterday’s dead

Tomorrow’s unborn

So there’s nothing to fear

And nothing to mourn

For all that is past

And all that has been

Can never return

To be lived once again

And what lies ahead

Or the things that will be

Are still in God’s hands

So it’s not up to me

To live in the future

That’s is God’s great unknown

For the past and the present

God claims for His own

So all I need do

Is to live for today

And trust God to show me

The truth and the way

For it’s only the memory

Of things that have been

And expecting tomorrow

To bring trouble again

That fills my today

Which God wants to bless

With uncertain fears

And borrowed distress

For all I need live for

Is this one little minute

For life’s here and now

And eternity’s in it.

Helen Steiner Rice