One of the Hardest Things

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Sometimes, the hardest person to forgive is yourself.  Knowing that you can’t go back and undo what you did, makes more difficult.  Forgiving yourself means admitting that hard truth to yourself, but then there has to come a time when you let it go, and stop beating yourself up.  Yes, the video taped reruns will replay in your mind from time to time, but that doesn’t mean you have to start the self-destructive thoughts.  For me, it was, and still IS, a learning process.  I used to think that by not forgiving myself was the way I could prove my remorse.  How wrong that train of thought is!  If you don’t forgive yourself, how can you ever move on and have a healthy spirit?  And if OUR SAVIOR forgives you, who are you not to?

The past can be painful to deal with, but not dealing with it only holds you in bondage; that’s not “life more abundantly”; that’s not freedom. Forgiving yourself is just as important, as forgiving someone else. And when you do, you’ll be on the road to loving yourself-how good is that?!

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Well, where do I begin? It seems like a lifetime since I’ve written a post. The past few days have been pretty good, but labored. This past July was the blog’s 1st b-day, and shortly thereafter, it seemed that my inspiration had packed its bags and left! It wasn’t because my life had suddenly become so busy, either-just that NOTHING was “coming to me” to write about. It was strange, too, because I felt as if there were people I was letting down by not posting. From time-to-time, I would come on here and read what you amazing writers and photographers were posting, hoping that I would feel the inspiration return.  NOT!  Even taking pictures had taken a backseat-next to writing, taking pictures is one of my passions.  Have any of you gone through something similar? I remember being in my living room this particular morning, and I was going over a mental list of reasons I thought it  had left.  To be completly honest, I still don’t know why it had left, but I’m so happy that it’s returned!

Yes, the past few months have been difficult, with major family changes, but because I have JESUS, or better said HE HAS ME, I have such peace, regardless of the difficulty. I’ll go into more detail at another time.  For now, I’m getting my feet wet again ;)

Thank you, everyone, for your continued encouragement.  And I’ve noticed some new followers-WELCOME! make yourselves at home :D