Where is the past?  Is it tangible? Can you see it? Can you touch it? Or does it only exist in our minds? And if it only exists in our minds as a thought as a memory then why do we let it control our day-to-day actions?  If the past is…just that…..the past then how can it affect us today…now?  It can…because we let it. We think it therefore it exists…at least in our minds.  If we could practice “Let go and let God” then we could give this memory..our past over to God and start to experience a new life because we will not have any past to go on..no past to move through the day with..that means letting go of the guilt, the anxiety, the worry, the fears, the anger……the uncertainty of it all that comes from our past experiences.  All that junk that we carry around in our heads and our hearts that get in between us and God….usually this “junk” has to do with forgiveness, of ourselves as well as others.  **Of course I am not referring to the “good stuff” that we carry around.  It still only exists in our mind…..it is not here and now…but some of those memories that we carry around are really sweet and good things.

I am referring to the stuff…the baggage type of stuff…the not so sweet stuff….that we carry around which comes from old memories….the old tape that we run in our heads, whether it is from our actual experiences or stuff that our parents and teachers experienced and were kind enough to drop on us! It does not matter where it came from…parents,self, teachers…the news??  Wherever it came from…it still got into your mind and helped to create your future…your now, and can really act as a wall between us and God…between us and our goals….between us and our happiness.

Today….let us start with forgiveness…and let us ‘let go and let God”  Let’s start there. Baby steps.  We can do it!