Springing Forward
Have you ever wished you could go back and completely redo a certain episode or time in your life?
Maybe, in anger, you spoke words that to this day,
still separate you from someone you love.
Maybe you let a golden opportunity pass you by
and now you are haunted by what might have been.
Maybe you took a path in life
that has led you far away from your intended destination.
Maybe you simply let time tick away without seizing the moment
and making the most of each hour of each day.
Maybe you chose what didn’t matter,
in place of what did.
As much as we would love a “do over”, the sad reality is this:
what is done is done and we can’t go back and undo it.
We can only move forward.
Yet, how many times have you and I gotten bogged down in the muddy mess of regret and guilt
and found our self idling instead of moving on with our life?
I am always delighted and amazed in springtime. Bare trees become clothed with beautifully fragrant blossoms. Birds, seemingly silent through the cold winter months, now chirp until their hearts are content. And most amazing of all, the metamorphosis of the butterfly begins. All of nature showcases the newness that comes with the warmth of the sun and the birth of yet another season of life.
Life goes on.
No matter how cold the winter,
no matter how deep the snow –
Spring eventually comes.
The cycle of life continues and I am so glad it does.
It is a beautiful reminder of the new thing God wants to do in your life and mine.
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. ~Isaiah 43:18-19
Living in the past only accomplishes one thing –
keeping us from living in the present.
Don’t get me wrong.
Wisdom tells us to learn from the past,
but it in no way would have us take up our residence there!
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ~ Philippians 3:13,14
Today, what is holding you a prisoner of the past?
Don’t you think it’s time to let it go?
Can you really afford to let it keep stealing your future?
Forget those things that are behind and instead reach for what is still out in front of you.
Open your heart and your life to receive the new thing God is waiting to do – in and through you!
~Stacy
