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Yesterday Does Not Own Today

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Yesterday’s failures and successes both try to colonize today. Grace interrupts that claim. What is confessed and forgiven need not keep rehearsing its mastery. What was achieved need not become the only measure of worth. Today is still a field in which obedience and hope are possible.

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The past has weight. It does not have the right to define the present under grace.

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