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Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours for long, and once it is gone it will never in all time be ours again. Thou only knowest what it

Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours for long, and once it is gone it will never in all time be ours again. Thou only knowest what it holds in store for us, yet even we know something of what it will hold. The chance to speak the truth, to show mercy, to ease another’s burden. The chance to resist evil, to remember all the good times and good people of our past, to be brave, to be strong, to be glad.

Frederick Buechner
Strong, Past, Yesterday
Frederick Buechner (1981). “The hungering dark”

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

Frederick Buechner
Past, Grace, Today

Through the power that memory gives us of thinking, feeling, imagining our way back through time we can at long last finally finish with the past in the sense of removing its power to hurt us and other people and to stunt our growth as human beings.

Frederick Buechner
Hurt, Memories, Past
Frederick Buechner (1991). “Telling Secrets”, Harper San Francisco

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

Frederick Buechner
Past, Views, Way
Frederick Buechner (1983). “Now and Then”, HarperCollins Publishers

I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.

Frederick Buechner
Character, Past, Creative
Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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