Posted on 02/11/2016 6:54:26 PM PST by Armen Hareyan
We need to live this life not looking through the rear-view mirror. If someone has hurt you, forgive and move on. Leave it for God and he will care for it. Every time you have been disappointed, God has already set a new beginning for you. This is why you are still in this world. Every morning, every instance is a new beginning and a new opportunity for your salvation, which is life with God in His Kingdom.
Your best days are still up ahead. The Scripture says in Ecclesiastes... Continue Reading here.
I’m 73 and doubt my best days are ahead. Best year of my life? 1964.
I’m sixty-seven. My best, 1967. Sure wouldn’t mind living that bit of my past over again.
The best thing you can do about the past is just leave it there.
“Your best days are still up ahead” This yappy-happy is misrepresentation of Scripture — There is not necessarily anything to look forward to in this life — Many saints lead terrible lives, each day worse than the previous until they were finally decapitated (thinking of St. Dymphna) or whatever was their tragic disposition.
What poppycock. How can you possibly know? I could be dead in a year, for all you know.
I’d rather erase bad memories.
Drudge had an article yesterday on medical advances in doing it.
There are doors one does not open in the chambers of the mind. Closed and the keys discarded for the rust of years to find. Yet, when the time has reached the hour, like the chiming of a clock, memory picks up the key and turns it in the lock.” A poem that comes to mind. Wish I knew who wrote it.
Look for it here ...
Marysville Journal-Tribune from Marysville, Ohio · Page 10
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For your best days ahead, there is only One Who can make that happen . . .http://www.thereishopeinJesus.com/
If he can send me back to 1964 to relive that year, it’d be okay. Otherwise, I don’t believe a word of it.
1974 for me. I was working two jobs and had four girlfriends.
LOL
Ah, youth.
It is okay to look at your past, just don’t stare at it...
Earth is a torturing planet where we strive for perfection yet are destined never to attain it. If you cross the powerful you are sentenced to a financial death, a prospect far more terrorizing than a quick death. One cannot even avoid sin by staying in bed, for that puts you in the realm of the seven deadly sins, dispair, sloth just to name two. Yes, it is great to be positive but the reality of best days ahead? A delusion to keep one going. I thought this was a piece from Olstein’s book. He sells hope which is a great prospect.
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For those who deny that God can and does give people inner spiritual experiences that expand and comfort the soul, growing older is nothing but misery. However for those who who seek and pray for a personal experience of God, every moment of life is a precious opportunity and often a profound and wondrous experience.
Those who quit and fail claim there is nothing to find. Those who seek with humility and perseverance receive grace, and discover the ever-new holiness of everyday life. They are given the discovery that there is nowhere where God is not, and that every breath is filled with the Holy Spirit if they but allow themselves to acknowledge it. As Jesus said, “Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and the door shall be opened for you.”
There is no death, only life, everlasting life. We get to decide what kind of life that will be for us, by what kind of relationship we have with God.
You have good days and you have bad days.
If you keep excerpting your own material, you may have some very bad days ahead.
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