Don't Live In The Past.

 I have often thought about, how the choices I made in my younger years, impact my life today. The words that I spoke into my own life. The things that I allowed. Because of my silence, choices were made. Because of fear, my hurts were kept in a cocoon buried deep inside me. 

If I knew then, what I know now, my present, perhaps, may be different. However, the past can never be relived. It can never be reborn. It can never be revisited. And it can never be undone. 

As I grow older, I have come to realize, that the past is what shapes us into who we ultimately become. Sometimes we blame our parents, for how we turn out. We play a blame game, toward our circumstances. The thing is.... when you are a child, you are under someone else's care and authority. Whatsoever your caregiver says, you do. Your thought patterns are that of a child. But when you become an adult, you put away childish things. You think like a woman. You speak like a woman. You act like a woman. You dress like a woman.

I have learnt, that in all things, to take responsibility for my actions and be accountable... TO MYSELF. I have learnt to LOVE the woman I am. To embrace the body I have. To accept my faults. To rise above every situation. 

In my life, though the paths I have journeyed brought tears.... frustration... brokenness... despair.. I had to let it all go. I had to release and surrender what has gone before.... so that I could embrace the present and look toward a future, that is to come. A chance of hope for a better life. And a desire to heal. 

At times, the memories of yesterday comes raging like a hurricane. But the hurt of long ago, is no longer within me. I am not that woman anymore. I have been set free from every spirit of bondage. I am no longer a slave to curses... people.... fears..... loneliness... or anything else.

Every day I pour beauty into ME. Every day I love ME. Every day I choose to let go and let God have HIS perfect way in me.

I am no longer the woman I was,

once upon a time. I am not who men say I am. But I am who God says I am. I am the daughter of the Most High God. Fearfully and wonderfully made.

I will always be VICTORIOUS. 

I will always be more than a CONQUEROR.

My encouragement to every single person... is.... lay aside every weight that you carry. Your battle has already been won. Learn from the past. But know that you are not your past. Your latter will be greater than your past.

God bless you always 💛 🙏 ❤️