Lent Day 26

Imagine you had a bank account in which $86,400 was deposited every day. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening it deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do with this account? Draw out every dollar, of course.

Each of us has such a bank account, and its name is TIME. Every morning your account is credited with 86,400 seconds, and every night it writes off as lost, whatever remainder of this you failed to invest to good purpose. There is no getting it back, no borrowing from tomorrow. You can only use today's deposits in the present, so all you can do with it is invest it to get the utmost in health, happiness, and success. The clock is always running, so do not waste time, make the most of today.

To realize the value of ONE YEAR, as a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly magazine.
To realize the value of ONE DAY, ask the editor of a newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the bus or boat or train or plane.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who barely avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE FRACTION OF A SECOND, ask the person who won an Olympic silver medal instead of a gold medal.

Time waits for no one. Yesterday is history. Today is a gift, that's why they call it the present.