There were two things I heard yesterday that struck me as significant.
The first was this: "Your past doesn't disqualify you, it prepares you." The second was a song called "God Is In This Story I've been thinking a lot about these and it has stirred a lot of hope inside. What does God see in my story? All the pain, tears, broken dreams, wasted years, loneliness, regrets intertwined with love, kindness, compassion, tenderness, comfort and caring. What if He is using it to prepare me for the next thing?
It is important to make peace with the past so I can move on, because I will still be living in the past until I do. I might try to forget it and stuff the pain deep, deep down inside but it will always appear sooner or later in weird and unexpected ways. As I let pain go, it makes room for love. And God's love, I've found, is big enough to embrace us all! I like what He said to me, "Simply live in the love I have for you today. Love never runs out. There is an endless supply."
So I've been looking for love...the love that has always been there but so often I have missed.
God is in my story and that's what makes it so beautiful, for where God is, there is love.
"Your past doesn't disqualify you, it prepares you."
