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What's In
Life
| In
life, there are two choices, to move forward or to
stagnate. If you want to move forward, you have to turn
your back from the past and face the present and future
with your eyes open. You do no leave your other foot
stuck in the past. If you do, you are immobilized and
your failure will hold you back. You are left to cope
with "what ifs", "should haves," and
piles of regret. Nothing changes and when you feel this
way, you start to believe that nothing will change. If
you sincerely want to change, you drop the anger, the
pain, the disappointment and sad experiences behind you. It is hard to leave the past. It is difficult to forgive and forget the people who may have hurt you, but you mentally close the door of the past firmly behind you and open another door to freedom. When you leave your past behind, you don't carry over into your present life, a mental chart of the things or actions other people did to you. You do not spend three hours a day wringing your hands and trying to understand why the unfortunate incident happended. You do not moan over the unfair judgement passed on to you. What you do, if you want to positively get even, is to make your life so succesful that your enemies will wonder how you recovered so fast! As one writer says "Living well is the best revenge." Our life is determined by the choices we make. We make or break our lives, sometimes we come out unscratched. Usually we don't know it is up to us to mend our torn selves and put them back to pieces. Only when this is done we can say that we are free from the negative, misleading past. Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. |
Crossroads
Sometimes, when I
look back and think
of all the "could-have-beens" in my life,
I often wonder: did I make the right choice?
did I miss a road sign?...
am I on the right track?...
CROSSROADS...
They happen all the time --
saying goodbye to
some, choosing only one.
Letting go, holding on... settling for now, but
facing what must come... Yes, in life we
all reach a crossroad sometime.
We make painful decisions and take some risks
as we pursue our dreams.
But one should not stay at the
CROSSROADS too long. For even the birds
have to leave their nests sometime
and learn how to fly. Life's road is long and
rough, and there are stretches when one
has to do it all alone. And should you
meet the cross at the road, be consoled.
Yes, more often than not, the road less
traveled will surely bring you home.
Face the light and the shadow falls
behind you. Turn your back and the
shadow stays in front of you. Indeed,
the truth hurts, but it will surely set
you free. The bitter pangs of parting
will give birth to another moment called growing.
So grow on... until it's time
for you to move on...and face the crossroads again,
knowing that God loves you
and is in control of everything.
Be strong at the crossroads.
Embrace the CROSS at the ROAD.
The Lord is at the cross, at the road,
at all your CROSSROADS...
