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 smarted and bled,
Are healed with the healing which might has shed.

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

"Here are the skies all burnished brightly;
Here is the spent earth all reborn;
Here are the tired limbs springing lightly
To face the sun and to share with the morn
In the chrism of dew and the cool of dawn.

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

Simply the first hour of this new day, with all its richness and glory,
with all its sublime and eternity-determining possibilities, and each
succeeding hour as it comes, but _not before_ it comes. This is the
secret of character building. This simple method will bring any one to
the realization of the highest life that can be even conceived of, and
there is nothing in this connection that can be conceived of that cannot
be realized somehow, somewhen, somewhere.

This brings such a life within the possibilities of _all_, for there is
_no one_, if really in earnest and if he really desires it, who cannot
live to his highest for a single hour. But even though there should be,
if he is _only earnest in his endeavor_, then, through the law that like
builds like, he will be able to come a little nearer to it the next hour,
and still nearer the next, and the next, until sooner or later comes the
time when it becomes the natural, and any other would require the effort.

In this way one becomes in love and in league with the highest and best
in the universe, and as a consequence, the highest and best in the
universe becomes in love and in league with him. They aid him at every
turn; they seem literally to move all things his way, because forsooth,
he has first moved their way.

THE REALIZATION OF PERFECT PEACE.

This is the Spirit of Infinite Peace, and the moment we come into
harmony with it there comes to us an inflowing tide of peace, for peace
is harmony. A