“All we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us.” -Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
We all have moments and times in our lives that we wish hadn’t happened. But we can’t change the past. However we can choose how we react to it and what we do with what we have.
Its easy to say I’ve always been like this or you don’t know what I’ve been through. You’re right. I don’t but God does. And he’s the one that can heal all our wounds.
When we let our past dictate our future. We let our past have all the power. But when we choose to let God heal us from our past. We choose to no longer let it affect us. We choose to be the new creation that God paid the price for us to be. We choose look to the future that God has planned for us and let him and his kingdom be our future.
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness
for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord
forever. -Psalm 23
Definitely need to not let the past give us an excuse to go ahead and live the best life we can. We may have had stuff happen to us that was not good, but no need to act like victim and let it define us.