"You will never advance to your future until you put
punctuation in your past so you may have hope for your future."
-Pastor Roger Archer
So many things in life rate you based on your past. Jobs, school, even friends. This sad truth causes many people to determine worth by their past behaviors. I do it all the time. The worst part of it all, however, is we let our past determine the worth of our future. And this can't continue.
Maybe you think your pain is too big, or the hurt is too deep. Or that your past makes you unfixable. Truthfully, it is really easy to think this way. But I made a vow to speak truth in this blog and the reality is: the past does not have to control your future. What Pastor Archer was saying is that here and now can be your new beginning to something better. And everyday you may have to draw that line and start over again. That's ok. Life is a process. Be patient with yourself and remember that you are better than your past. Not that the past didn't happen. It did. And it made you who you are. And you are beautiful, so no matter what happened, it was not too big or too bad to make you anything less.
The hurt will creep back in at times. But the art of life is being aware of that hurt and learning to work through it so it doesn't control you. Forgiveness is another whole piece of this. Everyone has to forgive someone. You live in a world full of flawed humans. This means someone will wrong you at some point. It is at this point when you need to embrace the fact that everyone is flawed. So don't let their flaw keep you in your hurt. Someone once said that unforgiveness and bitterness are like taking poison. The other person is completely unaffected, while it destroys you from the inside.
We have to get past it. We have to move forward. We were meant to shine. You. You were meant to shine. And you never will if you don't move forward from the past. Like I said yesterday, whatever we focus on becomes our action. If we focus on our past we are destined to repeat it. Instead, move forward knowing you are capable of more. You are capable of better. Because you are beautiful.
"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice." -Ephesians 4:31
Amen
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