"I'd shoot for the moon, but I am to busy gazing at stars."
DON'T BE AFRAID TO REACH YOUR GOALS! IF YOU WANT THE MOON DON'T BE AFRAID TO SHOOT FOR IT!! THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN FAIL IS IF YOU NEVER TRY...
I read an incredible talk by Elder Jeffrey R Holland yesterday that has forever changed my prospective on the future and not being afraid of the potential i have to achieve so much more.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but
this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching
forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the
mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
I press forward for the mark. So what is the mark?? To become like Jesus Christ. To walk with him each day of our lives. To enjoy each and every moment. to not look back to what we have left behind longing to be there. to not look forward wishing to be in another time. and to appreciate today.
Aerosmith=brilliant with the song "don't want to miss a thing" for the fear of blinking and missing a single moment. Don't be so caught up in the future or the past that you miss where you are today. I feel like I have spent the last 8 years of my life wishing to be living in a further date or to be in the past. 14 years old I longed to be 21 when I am 21 life will be better. 19-21 Rather than enjoying a space of time I wished for the future. First day of my mission. If I can survive to 6 months... I can make the rest. Here is sit... 11 months in wishing I would have spent more time living more in today. Here I am again wishing to be some where I am not.
The past is what it is and we have no power to go back and changed it. In elder Hollands talk i shared above he talks about lots wife. How when she looked back and was turned to a pillar of salt. it wasn't the action of looking back that got her. It was more likely the desires of her heart as she looked back.
"So it isn’t just that she looked back; she looked back longingly. In short, her attachment to the past outweighed her confidence in the future. That, apparently, was at least part of her sin."
"So a more theological way to talk about Lot’s wife is to say that she did not have faith. She doubted the Lord’s ability to give her something better than she already had. Apparently, she thought that nothing that lay ahead could possibly be as good as what she was leaving behind. To yearn to go back to a world that cannot be lived in now, to be perennially dissatisfied with present circumstances and have only dismal views of the future, and to miss the here and now and tomorrow because we are so trapped in the there and then and yesterday are some of the sins of Lot’s wife."
"There is something in many of us that particularly fails to forgive and forget earlier mistakes in life—either our mistakes or the mistakes of others. It is not good. It is not Christian. It stands in terrible opposition to the grandeur and majesty of the Atonement of Christ. To be tied to earlier mistakes is the worst kind of wallowing in the past from which we are called to cease and desist."
Don't stand in the way of the Atonement. Don't block the power of healing and remain bound in your chains of misery. Shake off the chains. The Savior promises that as we do our best to repent as fully as possible he will remember our sins no more. So why do we as humans continue to re open old wounds? To look back and wish for a do over instead of looking forward to a brighter future with unwavering faith to pressing forward with Christ with the knowledge we have obtained to not make the same mistakes over.
"Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve. Is that faith? Yes! Is that hope? Yes! Is that charity? Yes! Above all, it is charity, the pure love of Christ. If something is buried in the past, leave it buried. Don’t keep going back with your little sand pail and beach shovel to dig it up, wave it around, and then throw it at someone, saying, “Hey! Do you remember this?” Splat!"
let go and let yourself grow. Don't be afraid of what you can become. Trust that God has something bigger and better than you can imagine ahead and do your best to live learn and grow in the right now.
Don't become lost in the stars of yesterday, when you can be in the sun shine of today.
Don't over look the power of the Savior and the refinement he can do with you. We are all a little imperfect, yet God loves us so perfectly. He has the power to shape us and form us into something better each moment of every day.
It is like a scab. If you keep picking the scab it takes your skin longer to heal because you keep re opening the wound. At times infection sets in and the wound takes EVEN longer. Let the skin heal in the way God designed. Stop picking the scabs of your past. There is no need to reopen the sores. Don't let the infection of discouragement step in. Remember your worth to your father in heaven and step forward in faith.
"Look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed toward the future."
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