I am glad that I miss some things...it means that life has been good. I am thankful that I can look back and smile. Sometimes I wish I could go back, just for a moment, just to experience the feelings I felt then...but I can't, so I have a feeling of "missing" instead. And it's good.
I am glad that what has happened can't be changed. They have been captured in the pages of time past. Nobody can alter it, and God chooses not to alter it. Everything changes but not the past!
People may change the narrative or adjust perceptions of the past; but the fact remains that what was "is" there in the past and there are limits to adjustments and manipulations.
If time's arrow should take a detour, the tail would always be the tail, never the head. There are some "constants"...always.
Then there are also the tears I cried in times past; my memories contain bad and bitter scenes too. Thank God they can't be changed as well! What is my life story without those chapters on pain, hurt, loss, and sorrow? They bear testimony to the fact that I have lived, that is-loved, hated, risked, cried, lost, won,made mistakes...etc.. They mark my humanness and my need for God. If because of and in spite of the ugly stains I find myself closer to the heart of God, I have all the more reason to sing"Redemption's Story".
So I say again that I am glad some things can't be changed. And this gladness is not just some trick of positive thinking, it is faith at work...faith in God's redemptive work that reaches to the deepest recesses of even the past. And this faith like all good things is from the Giver of all good things who reconciles all things to Himself...
My past is redeemed. What more do I say?
I am glad that what has happened can't be changed. They have been captured in the pages of time past. Nobody can alter it, and God chooses not to alter it. Everything changes but not the past!
People may change the narrative or adjust perceptions of the past; but the fact remains that what was "is" there in the past and there are limits to adjustments and manipulations.
If time's arrow should take a detour, the tail would always be the tail, never the head. There are some "constants"...always.
Then there are also the tears I cried in times past; my memories contain bad and bitter scenes too. Thank God they can't be changed as well! What is my life story without those chapters on pain, hurt, loss, and sorrow? They bear testimony to the fact that I have lived, that is-loved, hated, risked, cried, lost, won,made mistakes...etc.. They mark my humanness and my need for God. If because of and in spite of the ugly stains I find myself closer to the heart of God, I have all the more reason to sing"Redemption's Story".
So I say again that I am glad some things can't be changed. And this gladness is not just some trick of positive thinking, it is faith at work...faith in God's redemptive work that reaches to the deepest recesses of even the past. And this faith like all good things is from the Giver of all good things who reconciles all things to Himself...
My past is redeemed. What more do I say?
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