Future Forward
The past cannot be changed, only the future. Some say that the future is set, that we are just actors on a stage destined to play the part we have been given.
Some say that all is chance, we live random lives like billiard balls ricocheting off each other in the universe.
I believe that there is so much more than preordained scripts or random acts that move us. I believe that we are connected, that our past cannot tell us who we are, and that the future is ours to write but that there is a destiny for each of us set forth from time immortal.
There are things in the past that I regret doing. I had two distinct encounters with the law in my past which has marred my record. I have had those things cleared from my official record but they affected who I could have been. The truth of it is that I could have been defined by those mistakes but chose to use those things that where meant for evil to be something to spur me on. Though I can never become a officer of the court or hold other jobs in the law enforcement sector I can do almost anything else. Those are things from my past that sought to tell me who I was. Every day society, family, friends, and the media seek to define us and tell us who we are and what we are to do. What choices to make and what things to believe. Years can go by taking us on a river of complacency while we wonder at what could have been.
Do not let the past be your future. I was once told the only mistakes are ones you don't learn from. Most of the time I seek to learn from my mistakes, sometimes I don't but I chose to move past those things that seek to tell me who I am and what this life is to be and instead move to pursue my destiny with both hands on the wheel, well sometimes with one hand and one hand out the window feeling the wind as it passes by! One of my favorite bands Three Doors Down in their song "It's the only one you've got" Brad Arnold screams out " your mistakes cannot define you now and tell you who your not, you've got to live this life you've been given like it's the only one you've got!"
Don't be afraid to fly!
There are things that scar us, pain we walk through which can overwhelm us to the point of depression and despair which the world, our own insecurities pile on us. There is a light hearted saying I live by, "if it don't kill you it just makes you stronger". Much of what happens to us we feel like it is going to kill us, maybe not literally but we feel that way. Often our feelings betray us because in the end though we may bear the scars of the battle we become all the more stronger because of the battle.
What battles are you in right now? Are you in the midst of pain or depression? Does it seem like the whole world is being piled on top of you? Maybe you have made a huge mistake and feel like you are never going to rise above it. Don't let these things hold you down. God doesn't define you by the mistakes you have made why should you?
Don't miss the future because of the could haves, should haves, but be defined by what can be and what could be.
God forgets the past when we come to Him in humility don't hold yourself back or let the world define you by your past, God doesn't.
