If you can forgive the person you were,
accept the person you are, and
believe in the person you will become,
you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
I've been thinking a lot about this quote from my last post.
The part I get hung up on is "believe in the person you will become"..My fear is that I don't know how to become who I am meant to be. I have spent so much of my life trying to become the person everyone else thought I should be or want me to be.I wonder if I ever knew who I wanted to be. I've been a daughter, a wife, a mother. I've been a student, a teacher, an accountant and a homemaker. I don't regret any of those roles in my life, but for the most part the active participation in each of those roles is over. So who am I going to become from this time forward? Who will I be in the future? In my devotional readings and bible studies. I keep reading that ultimately I should strive to become the person God has created me to be. Do I have the courage and strength to seek out who that woman is? Who am I and who will I become? One thing I need to believe and trust is that God made me and he loves me unconditionally for who I am. So whoever I am and who ever I become in the future if I trust God and put myself in his hands it has to be good and it has to lead to joy.
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Just a thought for you...
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Perceptions developed from this frame of referance can be troubling.
It will be all right, just trust the person God has made you, and as a famous mop head once sang, Let it be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9SgDoypXcI
Ah yes....I am working on letting my past, present and future be. Let the past be what it was, the present what it is and the future what it will.
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