The past is the past. We all have a past, even if you were born yesterday you have a past; yesterday was the first day of your past history (unless we count the last 9 months). I tell my children all the time, yesterday is gone, today is your chance to do better and tomorrow is unwritten.
While I was drinking my coffee yesterday I was thinking about the past. It was also the topic of Sundays sermon. I always say the past is who I am, but yesterday it dawned on me, the past is not who I am, it is who I was. The experiences I have had, the choices I have made, and the lessons that I have learned all made me the person I am today. The past is my yesterday, gone but perhaps never forgotten.
In church currently we are studying in Joshua. The series is titled: Wholehearted...living with your back to the past... One of the things that we single mom's struggle with is our past. We failed at something...marriage. The home our children knew is no longer. The question we need to ask ourselves is this: Do you want failure to keep you from moving on? Past failures can prevent us from moving on, from being the person we want to be now.
The one thing from the sermon that hit home with me (mostly because the pastor kept hitting it home in his sermon came from reading Joshua 3: 6-17. to sum up the passage, God has gone before us, he is in the midst of it with us, and he is behind us. That, to me, is a comforting feeling. He was there in my past, he is here with me today and he has gone ahead and knows what my future holds.
Today is not ideal, it is tough, yesterday was even harder and the future will most likely have its shares of up and downs. I made a decision for my family, and no I did not come by it lightly, and there seems to be no possible way for it to happen, but IF it is meant to happen, it will happen because God has made the way for it to happen, even if I can't see it. If it is not the right decision He will make that known to me.
So let's not live or dwell on the past or what could have been, lets look forward to what the future has in store. Good or bad, God is there in the midst of it with you. Our strength comes from Him. Acknowledge the little blessings in your life and look forward to the bigger ones that may come your way. Trust (not always easy for me), in God and He will provide.
Until the next Scribble....
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