Cut-off the past failures, mistakes, opinions of and people who are still shackled to the past of us as we don’t live in their manacles of their images of us anymore; for the past is no more and the new has come – a long time since. The past is not the future – under no circumstances, let them be a weight that weighs us down, for they do not belong in our lives. We are now a new person – don’t go back to the days of yore for we were a vastly different person then.
We need to learn what we can from the past but it had to be placed in perspective let it be a learning experience – do not let it imprisons us. We must not let the negative pasts have the power over us or the future. Let the painful memories go, let them be written in the sand so that they can be easily erased from our memories and remember them no more. Bring the past only if we are going to build from it. Don’t look back because we are not going to go that way again. Release the past, stand firmly in the present, step confidently into the future, with God’s help.
Our life is like a book. Some of the characters who “entered” have passing roles to play, others, much lengthier. But all are “de rigueur”, else they wouldn’t be in the story-line, under the watchful eyes of God. Welcome them all, and move on to the next chapter which God countenances us to be the author and empowers us to write new chapters afresh.
Let us appreciate and revel-in working and living in the present. Let us take the right choices and actions now and going forward too into the future.
Remember this words: “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed-door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~ Alexander Graham Bell
May God bless you.
“Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.” Isaiah 43:18
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,” Philippians 3:13