JFT = Just For Today.

Everyone has problems.

Getting drunk won't solve them.

"Twenty-four hours a day."

Today is the day.

Doing our best, living each day to the fullest is the art of living.

Yesterday is gone, and we don't know whether we will be here tomorrow.

If we do a good job of living today, and if tomorrow comes for us, then the chances are we will do a good job when it arrives -- so why worry about it?

Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 357

 

What have I been given today?

Am I willing to reach out and grasp it?

 

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Be Done With It

Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day.
You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today

You had better live your best and
act your best and think your best today:
for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and
all the other tomorrows that follow.
--Harriet Martineau

No matter how much I may regret or re-feel yesterday's painful experiences, there is nothing I can do to change what happened.
The past is forever beyond my control.
The same thing is true of the future.
No matter how much I may worry and fret over it, very few of us can predict what tomorrow will bring.
I can only prepare for a hope-filled future by living fully and confidently today.
Today is all I have. Let me make the most of it.

Love All, Serve All

Death can come at any minute, in any way.

We do not know what is in store tomorrow, or,

whether there is a tomorrow, or even a tonight!

But still, we have the golden present.

Now we are alive and kicking.

What should we do now?

Love all, serve all.

-- Swami Satchidananda

Today -- Spend It Wisely

If you want to change who you are, change what you do.
The Big Book is like a cookbook - you can read it all day long and starve.
You have to take the action.
If you stay humble, you will not stumble.
Our neighbor's window looks much cleaner if we first wash our own.

Yesterday is a canceled check,

tomorrow is a promissory note,

today is cash in hand,

spend it wisely.

Forgive and Forget

You must forgive and forget all the difficult things
of yesterday for yesterday has gone.

Tomorrow has not yet come.

But you have today to love Jesus as he loves you,
with a deep personal love.

-- from Thirsting for God: A Yearbook of Prayers and Meditations