When you think about your past, what memories come to play in your mind?? Do the good memories come up, or do the bad memories of events that happened in your past, overshadow the good??
From personal experience and self reflection, a lot of the memories that came in my mind were not very good one’s…Things I have done to people in my younger years and people I have hurt seem to have always riddled my mind and take control of my brain..Anytime I thought about my past, I was just sticking pins in myself and constantly hurting myself emotionally, and not even knowing it.. I could not grow in an emotional sense, and it seemed as though I was stuck in a vacuous container that was sucking the life out of me…My past had a foothold on the progress and path of my future life and what I really needed to do in life. I just needed to let go of the pains of yesterday so I can enjoy life today, and all the gifts that come along with it…
Does this sound familiar to you??
Are you still dwelling on yesterday and letting the past hurt you???
Are you going to let things that are out of your control take over your mind and reek havoc on your emotions?
I say, not anymore. I have learned that the past is just that..The past!!!! Anything I did in the past can no longer haunt me emotionally. It is, like a lot of things that used to bother me that do not anymore, out of my control… What I can not control or do anything about, can not, and will not bother me any more. I have given many apologies to people and every time I have said I was sorry to people, I have let that piece of my life go with it ..Never to be thought about again…Am I going to think about them….Sure, I am not naive, but to dwell on it and live there is not going to happen anymore. The pains of the past are behind me and I need to march forward.
So tell me…Do things in your past still linger in your mind?? And if so, what are you doing about it?
It is time to let go of the past things that bind you there. I have had many people ask me how to let go of things that they did in their past, and also ask how to let go of things that happened TO them…
My answer to those questions is very simple…It is an old cliche’ that has proved itself very wise to me in my recent years …..It is “The past, is the past”.
There are three times in one’s life…..The past, the present, and the future…..Nobody, or all the money in the world can not change yesterday, but you sure can change what is ahead of you.
So leave your past behind you, and forge your way into a promise filled, faith filled future…..
Rich Barnes