18 Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
Carrying last year's luggage anchors us into memories of once upon a time, whereas the present moment invites us to consider all that it has in store for us.
Nostalgia for our past is a constant travelling companion reminding us how we arrived where we are residing in our journey through time.
Home wood is at best a salute to another time when all appeared easy, and life drifted along at a pace that encouraged us to embrace the security that our parents, and school friends supplied to us in anticipation of better things to come.
To think that nostalgia is sufficient, that to simply dream a time, and place as it was and lose oneself in it all over again will be just fine is to reject our here and now. No one can truly revisit their childhood, nor should we want to, but we can always recreate it in those pleasant strolls down memory lane that trigger further plans inviting us to live in the present by embracing new adventures that will lead us into our future.
Becoming stuck in our past is another way of declining life's invitation to move with the times, to explore all that waits for us just up the road, enticing us to construct more memories worth recalling when sunset calls us home.
“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 3:12)
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