How To Let Go Of Your Painful Past!?
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” ― Bill Keane
If you want to move into your future, you must let go of the past. Burning the bridges that are holding you back is necessary. It is human nature to hold unto some things from our past. We have great memories we hold dear from our past but, there are also some things not worth holding unto. It might be your past painful experience, peers, habits, relationships, mindset, and many other things we tend to hold onto.
For those who have mastered serenity, fifteen seconds ago is ancient history. They realize that once something is over, it is over regardless of whether it has been over for many years or for a relatively short time. It is understandable that it can take different people varying amounts of time until they are able to let things go. But the goal should be to let go of what is over and done with. In truth, it is gone whether or not you let it. It is just a question of the degree of emotional mastery that you will have. Regardless of where you are at this moment, you can always improve on your ability to let things go as soon as they are gone. — Rabbi Pliskin, Serenity, p.51
“…God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, because it was near, for God said, ‘Perhaps the people will reconsider when they see a war, and they will return to Egypt’.” (Exodus 13:17).
Why did God make it well-near impossible for Israel to return to Egypt? After all, the reason He took them out in the first place was because they screamed and cried for Him to take them out, so if in the future they might decide to go back, why not let them?
Each of us is trapped in our own little ‘Egypt/prison’. The Egypt of materialism, The Egypt of indulgence, The Egypt of doubt, The Egypt of a past relationship you can’t get over, The Egypt of drugs, of sex, of lying, of unfaithfulness, of destructive addictions, of depression, of selfishness.
It takes a lot of arduous work to get us out of those prisons. And if we manage to make it out, there will always be a ‘good old friend’ who will give us a call or send us a text, and say ‘Hi, why don’t we hang out together tonight!” The only way to make sure that ‘good old friend’ can’t drag you back to old prisons of habits is to burn your bridges so there’s no way back.
God knew that the true desire of the His People was — and still is — to be close to Him, but He led them through the sea because He wanted to burn their bridges to make it easier for them to leave Egypt once and for all.
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
― Mother Theresa
“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.” ― Beryl Markham, West with the Night
Though we are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.
Don’t look back! Let go.
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