Probably everyone reading this post has made a lot of mistakes over the years.\u00a0 Life isn\u2019t always pretty, at least mine wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 It\u2019s not expected to be, in fact, but far too many of us never quit blaming ourselves for mistakes of the past.\u00a0 For some of us every mistake became a tragedy of epic proportions, even when that wasn\u2019t the case.\u00a0 And most often it wasn\u2019t the case. Many mistakes were simply pebbles on the learning curve of life.\u00a0 Pebbles that might have tripped us, but certainly not big enough pebbles to throw our entire life into a shadow that haunts us into old age.<\/p>\n
I know I let folks down in the past, my parents in particular.\u00a0 And even though I made amends, both verbally and by changing my behavior quite dramatically, I still have moments of remorse for the embarrassment I caused them.\u00a0 I think this is partly due to my age now.\u00a0 As I have gotten older, I feel more deeply about what good people they were and know they didn\u2019t deserve what I put them through.\u00a0 Excusing it by saying I was simply having growing pains doesn\u2019t seem to be enough most of the time.\u00a0 And yet, to continue holding myself hostage, means I am missing out on opportunities that are presenting themselves to me every day, opportunities to make a difference in the here and now in the lives of those whom God is intentionally sending my way.<\/p>\n
Whatever your age right now, it\u2019s time to move on.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to say we have passed through many stages of life, some more successfully than others, but in each stage we met those individuals we were meant to meet.\u00a0 We were introduced to the lessons we were meant to experience.\u00a0 And anything we failed to learn will revisit us at another time.\u00a0 Nothing goes unlearned! Nothing.<\/p>\n
Perhaps we should begin here making a list of those things we know we have learned and need no reminders about.\u00a0 Let me name a few so you can get the idea.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0I have learned that fear wears many faces and one of them is anger.<\/p>\n
2. I have learned that letting other people be in charge of their own journey through life is the only way to ensure my peace of mind.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0I have learned that multi-tasking is a myth.\u00a0 I can\u2019t give my full attention to two places or people at the same time and each situation is deserving of my rapt, unyielding attention or it wouldn\u2019t have presented itself to me.<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0I have learned that no experience was unimportant to my evolution.<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0I have learned that every expression made by anyone of us reflects a feeling of love or fear and the right response, regardless of what we encounter, is always a loving one.\u00a0 Always.<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0I have learned that we are always in the right place at the right time.\u00a0 Even when it seems this can\u2019t possibly be true, it is.<\/p>\n
7.\u00a0I have learned that forgiveness is the only act that truly unifies us, and the acceptance that we are all one is the singular fact of this life we share with 7 billion other souls.<\/p>\n
8.\u00a0I have learned that a peaceful heart is the by-product of acting in a peaceful way.<\/p>\n
9.\u00a0I have learned that pausing before making any comment or taking any action is all the time God needs to get the right thought in my mind.<\/p>\n
10.\u00a0I have learned that accepting every encounter with any one, as Holy and part of my divine journey, keeps all chaos at bay.<\/p>\n
11.\u00a0I have learned that I don\u2019t have to believe in God for God to believe in me.<\/p>\n
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Probably everyone reading this post has made a lot of mistakes over the years.\u00a0 Life isn\u2019t always pretty, at least mine wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 It\u2019s not expected to be, in fact, but far too many of us never quit blaming ourselves for mistakes of the past.\u00a0 For some of us every mistake became a tragedy of epic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-circle-of-family-and-friends-you-and-your-personal-community"],"yoast_head":"\n