fallen blossoms do not return to branches;
a broken mirror does not again reflect.
Japanese Proverb
Sometimes there is the desire to move backwards. Perhaps to correct it somehow. As if it is in my power to improve the past, to make it manageable, to make it pretty.
Is it guilt?
Is it faithlessness?
The past cannot save you.
It need not condemn you either.
Move forward.
Let the petals lay where they fall.
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i just had a conversation about not being defined by our pasts yesterday.
"But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind, and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize... And if on some point you think differently, that too God iwll make clear to you. Only let us live up to what we have already attained."
-Philippians 3:14-16
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