Yesterday’s gone; now what?
So we all know that we can’t change the past or live in it. But how do we not keep foreseeing more of the same? After all, that’s how things “always” work out for us, right? How do we stop dragging past mishaps into the present? When we have experienced much pain and suffering in life, it can become hard to imagine a brighter, happier future. Our minds are a very powerful thing. They remember everything. As we get older, this may be hard to believe - as we get more forgetful! But it's all in there. Everything we ever heard, saw, experienced, said - our brains are like computers with an unlimited hard drive capacity. So what is it that we are recalling? Which "document" are we opening from our hard drive? Here's the beauty of how God made our minds: we are able to create new thoughts with them! Ha! So when those old "documents" threaten to steal our joy and try to remind us of things that we'd just as soon forget, we can choose - in that moment! -