Letting Go

Man, I will really do anything to not sweep and mop my floors. I managed to distract myself with editing photos and staring at a blank computer screen trying to figure out what to write just to avoid mopping! I know I'm not the only one here who hates cleaning floors! Ok, I hate cleaning anything. I think the main reason I hate cleaning is that I know tomorrow it will need to be done again so why do it today. LOL I know, bad thinking.

"If you are going to live in excellence, you have to forget yesterday. Whether it was good, bad, or ugly, if it's yesterday, you need to let it go. When you carry yesterday further than you ought to, you ruin today. If you ruin today, then you spoil tomorrow." -Tony Evans, Kingdom Woman

So if I decide to not sweep, the dirt will carry over and add to tomorrow's dirt. That's true for everything. If we are super negative today thank God we have a night's sleep to let it go, or we can choose to carry it over and have more negative days.

Have you ever gone to a party or just hanging out with someone and everything is great and you are having a great time, but then you get home and all these thoughts pop into your head. Why did I say that? That's not what I meant? They probably think I'm crazy, selfish, weird, dumb blonde, you fill in the blank. It's crazy how we had a great night, but then we fester on something so dumb that the people we were with probably already forgot about it because they are thinking about what they said or did. We just need to let it go. It's so easier said than done. I so wish to be there someday. When I have enough confidence to not care about what I said or did. That I can just live in the present and not think about that past.

"You are to learn from yesterday, but not live in it."

-Tony Evans, Kingdom Woman

We are to learn from our past mistakes and not dwell on them. We are forgiven! I have done and said some things that I wish I could take back, but guess what, I can't. But we can forgive ourselves because Jesus has forgiven us and we can learn from our past. I'm still working on this every day. I think I don't let myself truly be present and forgiven because I struggle with the fact that I am forgiven. It's hard for me to wrap my brain around the fact that I am truly forgiven. I know as a Christian I shouldn't struggle with this, but I do. I think sometimes I stay in the past because I'm scared that the future is really going to challenge me. The funny thing is that I know it's going to challenge me and I need to really let yesterday go in order to move into tomorrow. I need to wake up every day forgiving myself of any craziness that happened the day before because tomorrow is a new day! A new beginning. A new day to challenge me. A new day with goals. A new to bless someone else. A new day to be present with where God has me.

Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!

Always smile,

Michelle