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Topic:
Trying To Overcome The Past
The past is locked away in a vault. The vault of the past cannot be
fully opened. We can see in the vault. We can, through numerous means,
sift through the contents of the vault. However, we cannot fully unlock
the vault because the past is not with us in the here and now. The past
is gone and gone forever. We cannot change the past. We cannot remake
the past. Much as we might want to go back and make things over, we can
never go back. Tragically, we can live every day thinking "If only…".
"If only I hadn't..."
"If only I could have..."
"If only I weren't..."
We can spend time trying to overcome what we did or did not do in the
past but what we cannot do is change what we did or did not do. What we
can do is focus on the here and now and change what we do in the here
and now. We cannot change what happened in the past but we can change
the way we deal with what happened in the past.
If the obstacles of your present life are obstacles from your past,
your best chance of success are dealing with your present obstacles in
the here and now. You can only live today, not yesterday, not last week,
or last year, or ten years ago. You can only fix problems you have now,
even if your present problems are from ten years ago.
Change what you can change today because you cannot change what you
did or what happened to you yesterday. For example, today you can
forgive in order to erase the hurt from yesterday.
If these words have been a blessing to you please forward
them to a friend.
These words were posted at one of Shepherd's Care Ministries Sites
called Wisdom Moment. This site is located at:
http://www.findthepower.com/wisdomminute
Shepherd's Care Ministries Main Site located at:
http://www.findthepower.com/ |
