MARCH 27 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Don't rattle old bones"

A Day at a Time Reflections · Mar 27, 2026 · 1m

Storing up grievances is not only a waste of time, but a waste of life that could be lived to greater satisfaction. If I keep a ledger of "oppressions and indignities," I'm only restoring them to painful reality. In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, "'The horror of that moment,' the King said, 'I shall never, never forget.' 'You will though,' said the Queen, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'" Am I keeping a secret storehouse for the wreckage of my past? Today I Pray … God keep me from harboring the sludge from the past-grievances, annoyances, grudges, oppressions, wrongs…