pressing toward the mark ...

I was convicted by a simple verse and I wonder why I didn't get it before or sooner. Maybe it came at the right time. I have travelled this far in getting over the past so as I have extracted myself from it maybe this will hurl me into the moment. So here is to forgetting my x memories even though they were very precious to me, to forgetting the pain of abandonment, and to forgetting my anger and frustration. Here is to reaching forward to lessons learned and lived, to reaching for Joy of the Lord, my Strength, and to reaching forward to my passions and dreams. I press toward what God has created within me and has designed for my life. I have a high calling straight from God and I need to keep that front and center.

I am sooooo tired of seeking out, listening and cheering at the feet of others for their dreams and passions. No one is there listening to mine. So suppose I choose to seek out, listen, and cheer for my own passions and dreams? I use to get so sad and angst when I listened to a dream of another and they would just give up! So I won't be able to tolerate it in my own life! Hmmmm, imagine ... isn't an adventure about living in the moment?

It is forgetting worry, stress, and fear but remembering the Works of God. What good has He moved in my life? Didn't He say He would see it to completion and perfection? Suppose I remember all the Good Gifts He has provided? Surely, remembering the Blessings helps in the forgetting of what lies behind.

... forgetting what lies behind and reaching for what lies ahead, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Phil 3:13-14