Holding onto the Past

Every Tuesday Night, there's a Bible Study / Discussion time at our house. We watch a Brad Bell film, about 10 minutes long, and then talk about how it hit us, or what we can take away from it. This last week's was titled "Today." It talked about embracing the future and letting go of the past.

There was a quote that I really liked. It went something like: 'if you're too busy holding onto the past, then you're arms aren't free to embrace today.'

I thought, "man, how much did I miss today because I was thinking about something that I did yesterday or last week?" I could have enjoyed the moment that I was in instead of worrying about something I couldn't change.

The other point that he made was that if you're one of those who says "I can do that tomorrow." "I'll get around to them tomorrow." One day, you're going to wake up and tomorrow hasn't come, it's now yesterday, and you missed it.

Now I take one of those phrases that people have quoted for years. "Live today like it's your last." A lot of people can take this as do something crazy. Don't do something TOO crazy, you'll probably regret it later. I'm more talking about living and enjoying life NOW instead of waiting until tomorrow and possibly being too late.

I'm going back to what my great grandfather said: "I enjoyed my life. I did what I could and enjoyed it." He had no regrets, because he didn't make any. If you live in the moment instead of someone else's moment, then you will have no regrets.

You're going to be able to look back on your life and say:

That's MY life.