Out With the Old….

…..In with the new.  This is my last post of 2008.  This year has been a trying one.  I have had many successes and many failures, but yet I press.  I decided to live a life a of “No Regrets”.  The past is the past and my future is so bright I gotta wear shades, lol.  So, here are my thoughts for the last post of the year.  God Bless and see ya in ‘09….

At ends and at beginnings, my mind is usually invaded with thoughts about the past, present, and future; failures and successes; regrets and resolutions; time and eternity; and a lot more. As we come to the beginning of a new year and the ending of an old one, we often wish we could turn over a new leaf or have a fresh start. No doubt about it, there have been certain things we have said or done in this past year that we want to relish on shoulda, coulda, woulda. Personally, I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. It’s the hard times that you go through that build character, making you a much stronger person. God never consults your past to determine your future. So I can’t keep looking at where I have been, I must look at where I am going. I can’t live this New Year advertising my pain. I cannot move forward concentrating on my short comings. I have no regrets. I wouldn’t have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

I have decided to no longer allow my past to dictate what my future will look like. I am letting the past go, I am changing my outlook on things. When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. To let go is not to try and change or blame circumstance; I can only change myself. To let go is not to cut myself off, it’s the realization that I don’t control it all. To let go is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future. To let go – is to let God!

We never know what the New Year will bring. We don’t know what problems we will encounter or what changes will come our way. Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future. Some people stay up until midnight to welcome the New Year. Others stay up to make sure the old year leaves! As you enter this New Year you can’t afford to let your past infect your present, or sabotage your future. Let go of the past and walk into your future. If your hands and heart are tightly clinched around the past, you can not grasp the new. You cannot move forward if you are continually looking in the rear view mirror! The past has passed, but your future is an unwritten book! You now have a choice. You can go into the New Year, taking everything with you, or you can go into the New Year trying your best to make sure the past is past and the future is for God.