I asked the question before, "Do you know who you are? (I mean today ?)
I ask because so many are looking through the rear view mirror as they travel
through life. All that will get you is an accident! Yes, you'll be an accident
waiting to happen if your eyes are not focused on the present! What happened
yesterday, good or bad, is gone. You have memories of it and even scars from it,
but it's not reality anymore.You can't change it, so why give it any energy or
any power over your life? That's counter productive! And it keeps you in that
old battle, fighting the same war over and over.
Jesus taught people
about expending their energy wisely. He asked the question, "Who of you by
worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little
thing, why do you worry about the rest?" (
Luke
12:25)
The point that you need to understand is that the war is
over. It's part of your history and it's part of your tragedy. Take a deep
breath. You're spending pointless energy, heading for an accident!
One
of life scriptures is found in
Isaiah
43:18-19 "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not
perceive it?
I am making a way in the desert and streams in the
wasteland.
The past has impacted you. The abuse caused enormous damage,
with which you live. The injustice is outrageous and the scars are unfair.
Turning your energies toward what you do have control over, rather than using
them to try to re-create your history, is a very real application to this
teaching of Christ.
Today, use your energy - and your eyes! - to live
your life; fully engaged in the journey that you are on now . And stop long
enough to look up for your strength!
( c)2008
April
Lorier |
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California. An award-winning poet, inspirational author and speaker. A survivor
of both child abuse and adult domestic abuse, April inspires women to be all
that God designed them to be! She first gained recognition as a children's
rights crusader while successfully fighting for the passage of the Child Abuse
and Neglect Reporting Act (CANRA), which was signed into law by Ronald Reagan.
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