Begin Again

my favorite poem in the whole wide world (this will probably change by next week)...


Begin Again
by Susan Coolidge

Every day is a fresh beginning,
Every day is the world made new;
You who are weary of sorrow and sinning.
Here is a beautiful hope for you--
A hope for me and a hope for you.

All the past things are past and over,
The tasks are done and the tears are shed;
Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover'
Yesterday's wounds, which have smarted and bled.
Are healed with the healing which night has shed.

Yesterday is now a part of forever,
Bound up in a sheaf, which God holds tight;
With glad days, and sad days, and bad days which never
Shall visit us more with their bloom and their blight,
Their fullness of sunshine or sorrowful night.

Let them go, since we cannot relieve them,
Cannot undo and cannot atone;
God in His mercy, recieve, forgive them;
Only the new days are our own,
Today is ours, and today alone.

Every day is a fresh beginning,
Listen, my soul, to the glad refrian,
And, spite of old sorrow and older sinning,
And puzzles forecasted and possible pain
Take heart with the day, and begin again.


Beautiful, yes?
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ok I've got some news for ya'll! I am LEADING WORSHIP at my church's youth group and I am beyond excited. A little scared, but excited. Open the Eyes of My Heart, It Is You, and Blessed Be Your Name, for my first time EVER performing. just me and my guitar. but Brittany is coming to sing along and I am greaaaaaatful because I don't want to be the only one singing! I love to sing but it's not exactly my major self-esteem point... so whoohoo! see ya'll soon!