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Today Is Yesterday’s Tomorrow
Jesus answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
The second (commandment) is this: Love your neighbor as yourself.”
There is no greater commandment than these. – Mark 12:30-31
Loving your neighbor is sometimes easy, sometimes a challenge. My neighbors are wonderful to me; I take the trash to the sidewalk and magically it disappears. It snows and magically the walk is clear (last time at 5:00 a.m. when my neighbor left for work)! Thinking ‘thank you’ is not enough. Saying it with a note or a smile or a plate of cookies are better choices.
My late husband, Michael Dean Higgins, was a poet and a musician. He left music and poetry everywhere. It seems I always find them when I need his words the most. I accidentally came across this one between the pages of a music score after Christmas. It was written February 15, 1970. It applies equally well on this day as 56 years ago.
Oft’ we wait too long to say
The many things within our minds.
Now yesterday’s tomorrow is today –
Today – so brutal and unkind.
Yes, I did – I meant to say
These words of tenderness.
But I didn’t have time today –
And now my heart knows sadness.
Do be wise and speak today,
And do not wait for sorrow.
Remember the dangers of delay –
Today is yesterday’s tomorrow. *
*Used with permission of the Michael Dean Higgins Estate.
Florence Higgins
McCurdy Board of Trustees
From Raton, New Mexico
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