This makes the problem of living very simple.

We need not look at our life as a whole, nor even carry the burden of a single year; if we but grasp well the meaning of the one little fragment of time immediately present, and do instantly all the duty and take all the privilege that the one hour brings, we shall thus do that which shall best please God and build up our own life into completeness.

It ought never to be hard for us to do this.
"God broke our years to hours and days, that hour by hour And day by day Just going on a little way, We might be able all along To keep quite strong.
Should all the weight of life Be laid across our shoulder, and the future, rife With woe and struggle, meet us face to face At just one place, We could not go, Our feet would stop; and so God lays a little on us every day, And never, I believe, on all the way Will burdens bear so deep, Or pathways lie so threatening and so steep, But we can go, if by God's power We only bear the burden of the hour." Living thus we shall make each hour radiant with the radiancy of duty well done, and radiant hours will make radiant years.

But the missing of privileges and the neglecting of duties will leave days and years marred and blemished and make the life at last like a moth-eaten garment.

We must catch the sacred meaning of our opportunities if we would live up to our best..