Keep Moving Forward!
One of the angels ordered them to never look back... but Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt..
Why did she look back? What was she leaving behind? Does it really matter? God had a different plan for them and instead of moving forward she looked back.. leaving her to die.
I know how hard it is to not look back and dwell on the past.. so I can relate to her. I know everything has it's reason and I should move forward but.. it's just so difficult to do so. Lucky for me...for us.. I'm not going to turn into a pillar of salt and die if I continue to look back.. Not literally at least. But the more we dwell on the past and not look towards the future.. aren't we slowly dying a little bit on the inside? Aren't we hurting ourselves in a different way? I know I am. The more I look behind the more upset I get. The more I wish I can turn back the hands of time and change so many things... the more I look back.. the more I cry.. What is the use? Why can't I just "let go and let God" as they say. People may get so tired of me quoting this scripture from Jeremiah 29:11 but I can't help myself. I relate it to everything. If he has great plans for me... to give me a bright future.. why am I still looking back?? Great things are waiting for me!
So many of us live our lives staring into the rearview mirror instead of looking forward. We are living with the mistakes of the past... guilt, shame, regret. You know what? It's not even always negative things... some of us are still dwelling on just how great things used to be... and how it's no longer that way.
Let it go! There is absolutely nothing.. and I mean NOTHING... we can do to change any of it. Let's stop looking back, stop thinking about it, writing about it, talking about it.. just let it go. Let the past be in the past.
I know this may not be the right place to quote Tupac BUT.. I've always remembered this quote..
" you can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, even months analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, should've, would've happened or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on!"
Of course that's the censored version =) But really... let's leave the pieces on the floor and move on!
*UPDATE*
How ironic is it that after I posted this contribution I had an email pop up that simply says the following:
"Good morning. Your eyes were strategically put in the front and not the back of your head.. You were born to move forward! (Forget the former things, do not dwell on the past.. ) -Isaiah 43:18
God is Love
Rev Run
Wow.. =)
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