Making Peace with your past

Making peace with your past

There are times in life we look back at our past and we dwell on it. We wonder why we did the things we did and then beat ourselves up on the past. We sometimes live so much in the past that we can’t live in the present. This is sometimes so hard not to look back, but it is like history we can’t live there we just have to learn from it. I was talking to my daughters tonight and they were asking my questions about my high school and college days. I was not proud of the things I did but I shared with them some things hoping I could share with them of what not do. They asked dad do you regret some of the choices you made and I said yes. They asked me if I could rewind time would I change anything and of course I said I would. I think we all wish we had a rewind button on our life, but we don’t. Like I told them we have to live with the choices we make and we have to learn from them. I know one day when they are my age they will look back and wish they could change things, but how else do we learn sometimes. Like I told them there are things and people we will lose based on our choices. I lost some good friends based on the choices that I made back in the day. However I told them you can’t dwell on the past you have to learn from the past. I told them when we walk with God and ask him to forgive us Gods throws tosses it.

Like in Isaiah 43: 18-19 “The lord says, “Forget what happened before, and do not think about the past. Look at the new thing I am going to do. It is already happening. Don’t you see it? I will make a in the desert and rivers in the dry land.” However this is so easy to read then it is to apply to our life. We it is that you ask? I believe it’s because we hurt people and lose things that we wish we didn’t that we just hate it. But have you made peace with your past? If you have that is great. But if you have not it’s like standing in quicksand and you need to find an escape before it takes you under. We need to accept what has been and by trusting God for what will be.  Because we are human, you may be slow to forget yesterday’s disappointments. But, if you sincerely seek to focus your hopes and energies on the future, then we must find a way to accept the past, no matter how difficult it is.  So, if you have not yet made peace with your past, today is the day to declare an end to all hostilities. When you do, you can then turn your thoughts to wondrous promises of God and the glorious future that he has in store for you. This is something I have not seem to master, but with God he is working on me. One thing I have to remind myself every day is this “Don’t let yesterday use up to much of today, if I do what I am missing?”