‘Yesterday ended last night’… So goes an old dictum, yet we let the misdeeds of yesterday perpetuate our today. The ghosts of yesterday are allowed to haunt our today. We live under the shadows of our past, in the archives of what was or has been, missing what is and what can be.We are drawn towards what we focus, destiny draws forward, the past draws backward, and the choice is ours, on which we focus.
We are, by definition, rid of the past, inevitably living in the present…so don’t let the past impinge your present.
‘One problem in the gazing too frequently into the past is that we might turn round to find the future has run out on us’…Michael Cibenco once observed. Yet the world is populated by folks who are going through the facets if their lives feeling horrible about something they shouldn’t have done or something they should have done but failed to. Broken, they are busy sacrificing the potential of their lives in the altars of their past …‘carrying the past as a burden instead of a school, being overwhelmed by it instead of being educated by it’
The past is just that – past. It has as much power over you as you give it. Deny it any power, and it has no grip over you. Be its master;
You can’t move fast …dragging the burdens of the past. If you keep engaging reverse gear, then there is no guessing how far you’ll move forward!
We all have done things we wish we didn’t do, that’s not tragic, the tragedy is in identifying with your past trademarks,- what you did or didn’t do- rather than your own potential for growth. When you do that, you negate yourself and unless you live in another planet with a different reality system, it’s common knowledge that feeling bad or guilty long enough will not change a past event.
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving the present.
‘The past is a guide post, not a hitching post’. Said Thomas hold.
Get past your past and reach for your dreams
You can either clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present, or you can unknot the ropes that link you to your past and wash out the guilt bugs that have infested so many sectors of your life. Hanging unto a past you can do nothing about is gross jeopardy to the possibilities of both the present and the future which you are responsible of.
Opportunity is always where you are, never where you were!
Let’s borrow a leaf from Paul of tarsus. He had a past. The new living translation bible puts Philippians 3: 13-14 this way. “…….but I am now focusing all my energies on this one thing; forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race…..”
…The rewards of life go to those who are willing to give up the past. To experience true freedom, break free from the past. Letting go the old is the way to accessing the new. You can’t move backwards into the future.
Show me a driver who dares drive on forward gear with his eyes fixed on the rare mirror and I will show you a driver who will not get to his destination…an accident waiting to happen.
Our sojourn on earth is so brief and life so breathtakingly short, we can’t afford to waste the present waving at ourselves & others the flag of our past, with all the labels of what our life has been on it. The way to live effectively each day and each present moment everyday is to avoid corrupting today with the misdeed of yesterday.
Let each new dawn be an opportunity to start all over again, to clear our minds and hearts a new, to clarify our vision. Don’t clutter up today with the leavings of other day’s…
There is no future in the past!
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