December 27, 1967 (8 pages)

DRIAL Garrett M. Stack Editor . e Faith fest Editorial by H. E, BERG There are only three days in the New Year, --Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. That's right: only three days in a year or in a lifetime. On second thought, in a practical and philosophical sense, there is only one day in a week, or year, or month, or a lifetime. Yesterday is gone, It is done with. It is past. It may sometimes be atoned-for or offset or equalled, but it cannot be changed. It cannot be brought back, It is not erasable. It may or not be forgiven, It may or may not be forgotten. It may or not belongs in the Past. Even God only man is stupid enough to keep bringing it up, to keep dragging it back. At least, only creatures to think he has to suffer through Yesterday again, to keep on enjoying its miseries keep. on punishing himself for all the old + [rk te see can wonderful, precious, beautiful with perfume, sweetness, light and laughter. But mory can also be murder. Memory should be, must be, conmay be able to keep a bird from flying over ght to be able to keep a bird from building hair. "The good old days" belong right where they all. So let's leave Yesterday out of the New Year! all reverence, Yesterday belongs to God, so let Him be stuck New. Year we can't worry about is a strangely true sense, Tomorrow just does not exist, @ just never will be. When and if it comes, then it isn't Tomorrow after all, "Lost tomorrow, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, they'll never get here!" This stretching poetic license, but it may help us get the vision may be of Dale Carnegie's Now, --the one little grain of sand this instant hourglass, Since we don't know the REAL Tomorrow, we worry about the POSSIBLE Tomorrow. The busy bee works about tomorrow, the dedicated ant works about tomorrow, even the ordinary squirrel works about tomorrow. But they all do it today. Only humans work AND worry about tomorrow. And since it cannot ties of Tomorrow: poor performance, adversities, accidents, perils, burdens, failures, mistakes, what other people will think, ‘even death and destruction. All these may lie possibilities but not at all probabilities. Tomorrow does not really belong to you, How can you persist in trying to borrow its dirty details or in trying to steal its miserable messes? “Sufficient unto the day (Today), is the -evil thereof,” If you keep trying hard enough you can become the ‘worst kind of pessimist: the optimist who is afraid that the péssimist will turn out to be right! Don't believe it! Tomorrow belongs to God and the Universe, along with Yesterday. The only thing you can do about it, is do your best today. So, for the New Year, or for Tomorrow have got to be cut out. That leaves only Today. And live. it, Whether it's groovy or grimey, Today is aie eee game, «it’s the only game we mind time for these, Right now, Today, you have the courage to carry on, to pull through. Your faith and your courage are magnificent, far beyond what you are giving yourself credit for. They are seeing you through Today, much more. successfully than are eee Each time you practice a step of faith, you're Today you also live in hope. Not Tomorrow, Don't be confused. Hope is a certain strength for the here and now. In one E BEE ps KE ree ave ft At) rae ls eas 4 id A piaque which notes his ‘‘ex‘ traordinary services in building OPEN SUNDAY, Farm Bureau’? was presented New Year's Eve to Pierce on Dec. 11 on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Celebrate that and Organization and Field Services staff members of State NEW YEAR iN: Farm Bureaus. O. R, Long, : director of the AFBF Field Ser"Noisemakers vices Division, made the surWith Frank and George prise presentation during the : annual AFBF Organization ConClosed New Year's Day Ke ference at the Conrad Hilton fe Hotel in Chicago, 4 [£107 Mill Steer PIERCE HONORED ; a Frank Pierce, General SecreNi oO T K Cc E tary of the California Farm Bureau Federation, has been races =. THE WILLO Bureau Federation, Wouldn't You Know Our Piano Shipment came-—-In Just 3 Days Before ao Christmas.. — LAS PPAR ESS TDD ¢ choose your piano from. the widest selection of styles ever offered There's. a decorator designed Wi. m Bal] _ to harmonize perfectly ith the other hindhlene in your home 7 S Risehie 4 si{usic Cites : GLENN SANDERS/— PHONE 273-8815 it = J Grass Volley, Calif. fF

DRIAL Garrett M. Stack Editor . e Faith fest Editorial by H. E, BERG There are only three days in the New Year, --Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. That's right: only three days in a year or in a lifetime. On second thought, in a practical and philosophical sense, there is only one day in a week, or year, or month, or a lifetime. Yesterday is gone, It is done with. It is past. It may sometimes be atoned-for or offset or equalled, but it cannot be changed. It cannot be brought back, It is not erasable. It may or not be forgiven, It may or may not be forgotten. It may or not belongs in the Past. Even God only man is stupid enough to keep bringing it up, to keep dragging it back. At least, only creatures to think he has to suffer through Yesterday again, to keep on enjoying its miseries keep. on punishing himself for all the old + [rk te see can wonderful, precious, beautiful with perfume, sweetness, light and laughter. But mory can also be murder. Memory should be, must be, conmay be able to keep a bird from flying over ght to be able to keep a bird from building hair. "The good old days" belong right where they all. So let's leave Yesterday out of the New Year! all reverence, Yesterday belongs to God, so let Him be stuck New. Year we can't worry about is a strangely true sense, Tomorrow just does not exist, @ just never will be. When and if it comes, then it isn't Tomorrow after all, "Lost tomorrow, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, they'll never get here!" This stretching poetic license, but it may help us get the vision may be of Dale Carnegie's Now, --the one little grain of sand this instant hourglass, Since we don't know the REAL Tomorrow, we worry about the POSSIBLE Tomorrow. The busy bee works about tomorrow, the dedicated ant works about tomorrow, even the ordinary squirrel works about tomorrow. But they all do it today. Only humans work AND worry about tomorrow. And since it cannot ties of Tomorrow: poor performance, adversities, accidents, perils, burdens, failures, mistakes, what other people will think, ‘even death and destruction. All these may lie possibilities but not at all probabilities. Tomorrow does not really belong to you, How can you persist in trying to borrow its dirty details or in trying to steal its miserable messes? “Sufficient unto the day (Today), is the -evil thereof,” If you keep trying hard enough you can become the ‘worst kind of pessimist: the optimist who is afraid that the péssimist will turn out to be right! Don't believe it! Tomorrow belongs to God and the Universe, along with Yesterday. The only thing you can do about it, is do your best today. So, for the New Year, or for Tomorrow have got to be cut out. That leaves only Today. And live. it, Whether it's groovy or grimey, Today is aie eee game, «it’s the only game we

mind time for these, Right now, Today, you have the courage to carry on, to pull through. Your faith and your courage are magnificent, far beyond what you are giving yourself credit for. They are seeing you through Today, much more. successfully than are eee Each time you practice a step of faith, you're Today you also live in hope. Not Tomorrow, Don't be confused. Hope is a certain strength for the here and now. In one E BEE ps KE ree ave ft At) rae ls eas 4 id A piaque which notes his ‘‘ex‘ traordinary services in building OPEN SUNDAY, Farm Bureau’? was presented New Year's Eve to Pierce on Dec. 11 on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Celebrate that and Organization and Field Services staff members of State NEW YEAR iN: Farm Bureaus. O. R, Long, : director of the AFBF Field Ser"Noisemakers vices Division, made the surWith Frank and George prise presentation during the : annual AFBF Organization ConClosed New Year's Day Ke ference at the Conrad Hilton fe Hotel in Chicago, 4 [£107 Mill Steer PIERCE HONORED ; a Frank Pierce, General SecreNi oO T K Cc E tary of the California Farm Bureau Federation, has been races =. THE WILLO Bureau Federation, Wouldn't You Know Our Piano Shipment came-—-In Just 3 Days Before ao Christmas.... — LAS PPAR ESS TDD ¢ choose your piano from. the widest selection of styles ever offered There's. a decorator designed Wi. m Bal] _ to harmonize perfectly ith the other hindhlene in your home 7 S Risehie 4 si{usic Cites : GLENN SANDERS/— PHONE 273-8815 it = J Grass Volley, Calif. fF