day tight compartments ~ peace

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Today

I live in


 'day-tight

compartments!'

As Sir William Osler would teach

students attending Yale...

"Live in day tight compartments

 and begin each day with a short prayer,

'Give us this day our daily bread.'"

In a book, "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living" by, Dale Carnegie that I found in my uncles trash I find simple guidance. Chapter one is titled, "Live in Day-tight Compartments."

 Carnegie quotes Sir William Osler sharing advice to Yale students about his voyage crossing the Atlantic on a great ocean liner and how it pertained to the lives of the students. On this voyage the captain of this ship would push a button and these iron doors would shut off section by section.  (watertight compartments) So he told his students how much more valuable they were than the great liner and he urged them to control the machinery of their lives with "day-tight compartments." He said, " to ensure safety on the voyage."

In this chapter Carnegie goes on to quote Osler, "Get on the bridge, and see that at least the great bulkheads are in working order. Touch a button and hear, as every level of your life, the iron doors shutting out the Past--the dead yesterdays. Touch another and shut off, with a metal curtain, the Future as tightly as the past.... The future is today... There is no tomorrow. The day of man's salvation is now. Waste of energy, mental distress, nervous worries dog the steps of a man who is anxious about the future....Shut close, then the great fore and aft bulkheads, and prepared to cultivate the habit of a life of 'day-tight compartments.' "

I hope to continue more of these writings of Osler and Carnegie. I am learning devoutly how to apply this to my life. To live for today, to live in the moment, the present moment. I pray that somehow my sons could learn these principles that will enable them goodness and peace. To God be the glory in my happy moments and also in my moments of distress. ~ Nanirou +