Look Beyond the Past Day 239 It would be dangerous to drive down the street if your attention were focused solely on the rearview mirror, looking at what is behind. Grief tends to make you look to the past, to what you lost. The pain of that loss, it’s true, will be with you forever, but to move on, you must focus on the future as well as on the past. “You can either stay in that grief, or you can move on. But you will move on with the grief,” says Linda, whose baby was stillborn. “You always have that, and you can’t expect that one day you won’t ever feel sorry that you lost a loved one. That will always be part of you.” Use your past to build on your future. Seek the God of the past, the present, and the future for a hope that will sustain you. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End” (Revelation 22:13). Lord God, You are my only hope. I do not want to forget the past, but I cannot live there either. Amen
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:43:40 +0000
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