LOVE Your Broken PAST Enough TO LET IT GO

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed. ~J. G. Ballard

Every time you decide to embark on a new journey or when the time comes when you are fed up with being fed up with what is trending and eating up your life, it’s time to deal with your past. That past can be a second, minute, day, or many years old but it needs to be dealt with so that it does not show up to blur your vision for your future. You could have lost opportunities, something, or maybe a loved one who was so dear to your heart and the loss feels like a lost rid ripped out of your side. Love is the greatest weapon you can use to heal your past. Whatever you hate will not go away but persist to give you more reasons to hate and keep you stressed but, whatever you love will give space for more lovely things for you to experience more love. Complaining about the past will not make it go away but love it and ask it to leave lovingly and the past will oblige at command.

Whatever has happened in your past and no matter how dreadful it must have been, face it and say to it “I love you” and say thank you for what you (the past) have achieved so far in my life and it’s time for you to go and remain in the past. At this point, you affirm with the words “I let you go”. Love your past no matter how ugly it may have unfolded before you because the better person you have become was born out of that past. Don’t live your life hating the past that cannot defend itself and keep blaming it for the perceived misfortunes of the present over which you have the power to control, to change and transform.

When your life is shipwrecked in the turbulent sea of life, take a hold of one broken piece of the ship (your life) and hold on onto it to keep you afloat until you reach the safety of the shore. It serves no purpose crying over the broken ship whilst in raging waters because you will sink with it. Therefore, take joy in the fact that while your past may have broken you down, at least you had something left of it that you held onto that has seen you through to this day when you can safely say thank you, Lord for your grace. 

Love your past but don’t build a monument for it