Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Perhaps looking at the forensics of your past can catapult you forward in a way that merely dreaming can never attain!

We need to be honest with ourselves. We need a place where we can sit down, reflect, and mourn. However, we must be careful not to mourn over the past longer than necessary. After the funeral, there is always a burial. The burial separates the survivor from the deceased, and it is as far as we can go. So you must come to a place of separation and decide to live on.

entrée to your future. Start reading journals and blogs and books that you've

Ultimately everything God has ever said will come to pass. When we suffer loss like Eve did, we cannot allow past circumstances to abort future opportunity. If you have experienced loss in your life, God has a way of restoring things you thought you would never see again.

People tend to glorify the past, especially when they are struggling with the future.

It doesn't matter where you come from. There's nothing you can do about it, so don't waste your energy thinking about it. What matters is where you're going. And that, mate, is something you can control.

your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.