February Twenty-Ninth
Anne Lee born 1736.
G. A. Rossini born 1792.
John Landseer died 1852.
Happy is he and more than wise
Who sees with wondrous eyes and clean
This world through all the gray disguise
Of sleep and custom in between.
—G. K. Chesterton.
In the morning, when thou findest thyself unwilling to rise, consider with thyself presently, if it is to go about a man’s work that I am stirred up. Or was I made for this, to lay me down, and make much of myself in a warm bed.
—Marcus Aurelius.
Arise and be doing, and Jehovah be with thee.
—1 Chronicles 22. 16.
Gracious Father, help me to take of the wealth of my day, while it is in season, and accessible. May I not be ignorant of the abundance in which I live, and be found in overwhelming regret. Forgive me for all that I have missed in life, and make me more watchful of that which is to come. Amen.