By David Miller

One semester, I had a past student (who became a friend) enroll in a subsequent upper-level class of mine. In the previous class, I saw him make remarkable progress in tackling a new subject and overcoming his fears. After pondering some of the fear-fighting thoughts we discussed in the next class, he came to my office with a question. “What do you do if some of your old fears start to come back?”

I was surprised by myself as I was able to give him four suggestions that came as inspiration in the moment. I don’t know if these will apply to everyone, but I think they were applicable to him (and me). I will share these four points as individual posts.

#1
“As Thy Days May Demand, So Thy Succor Shall Be…”
Means we receive help as we need it. One day at a time. Not weeks, months, or years in advance. ASK for, LOOK for, ACCEPT, and be THANKFUL for the GRACE given THIS DAY.

Often, we wish for our challenges to be resolved completely and in advance. We want to be DONE with them. Unfortunately, the baggage of yesterday and the twists and turns of tomorrow remain. We don’t get to see how all of our current and future needs will be met. But what we DO get is the gift of grace each day.

We just need to know where to look for it. We need to let it empower us. We need to choose to accept the daily gift and see how it changes us as we do. And as we string together many of these “todays,” we can look back and see how grace worked in our favor. That we had the succor and help to make it through the tough times, one day at a time. This, in turn, gives us the hope that those daily gifts will continue to come. I don’t know how and in what form. But they will be there. Every day. As they always have been.

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