What’s Your Perspective?
One of the most common mistakes we make when trying to let go of our past is to look outside ourselves for the answer. We have a tendency to believe that when our circumstances change the past will no longer haunt us. When we get a different job, move to another place, get a better car or house, or when our offender apologizes we falsely believe all will be well. This is just not true.
Changing our outer circumstances will never reverse how we feel about the past. The only way for us to free our past and live today is to look at it from a different perspective. In order to release the past we must learn to see to look at ourselves from new viewpoint, one that is of God.
Think back to a time when you were harmed in some way by another. More than likely you immediately believed it was about you; what you did or did not do, what you said or did not say, how you reacted to a situation. But in reality what happened was never about you. It was then and continues to be about the other person, where they were emotionally at the time of the offense. And yet you and I are the ones holding onto these experiences.
The first new tool to put in your toolbox is what I call the “Who I Am” tool. We are not what has happened to us, we are not our experiences. Likewise, we are not what we have done or said to another.
You and I are children of the Divine, of God. And as a child of God we have an inheritance that no one, not even us, can take away.
Blessings for TODAY, Jeannine
