"Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I Love Ya, Tomorrow..."

Tomorrow: it comes too soon, too slowly, or rather, it never comes at all…

There are so many thought about 'tomorrow'...I've been thinking about them recently.  A dear friend of mine reminded me on Sunday night, that "God is bigger than my Monday".  And it's true.  God is bigger than whatever day we're facing.  Sometimes, all I want is for tomorrow to arrive - whether that's because I'm anticipating the coming day or because I would just like for the current one to end.  Other days, I want tomorrow to never arrive, so that I can savor each moment of the day that I'm in, or so that I have more time to accomplish my endless to-do list!

Either way, tomorrow is wrapped up in the concept of time and I will never forget the quote I read from "A Severe Mercy."  Sheldon Van Aucken is talking about we, as human beings, being surprised by time and his general thought is this (and I am paraphrasing, because my book is at home, and I am at school): We are always surprised by time, because we were not created for time - we are timeless beings.  We are created by a God who is outside of time and therefore, are often taken by surprise at the way "time flies!" or at how slowly "the minutes crawl".

Here are some funny, serious, thought-provoking, etc… thoughts on tomorrow and time that I'd thought I'd share.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Benjamin Franklin

                (For a man who was a Deist, and didn't see God as having much involvement in our lives, he hits the nail on the head.)

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Pablo Picasso

                   (This quote, by the way, is one of many having to do with either accomplishing things before tomorrow, or, as Mark Twain humorously suggests, never doing today, what you can do tomorrow…)

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Leo Buscaglia

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Thomas Hardy

                  (I'm one of those people - always surprised by change…)

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Charles Spurgeon

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

Charles M. Schulz

                 (Gotta love this quote. So terribly impractical to think this way, isn't it? But hey, it still makes me smile.)

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Saint Augustine

I think the most important quote about time and worry and tomorrow is this one:

                "Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble." [Matthew 6:34]

                              And you know why this is possible?

Because my God is bigger than tomorrow. 

And He's already got tomorrow all figured out.