“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” Rick Warren
When this major crisis hit (I cancelled my wedding 9 days beforehand), it was like garbage in-garbage out. Every painful memory from the past came back to haunt me. Every hour, even every few minutes, my mind detoured to the past. I was virtually paralyzed, unable to do much else. My pattern of stuffing my emotions with food or watching movies ceased to work. I was in crisis, crippled by my garbage emotions: anxiety, bitterness, anger, unforgiveness, resentment and fear. My only option was to face them and replace them, but I didn’t know how.
Lord, thank You for the resources from the books: Lord, Heal My Hurts, by Kay Author, and Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions, by Alcoholics Anonymous, that gave me the tools to examine past hurts and replace them with serenity and contentment. Amen “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:18-19 What are your thoughts?
Libby Note: Rick Warren (1954- ), an American evangelical Christian pastor and author, he’s the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, co-founder of Celebrate Recovery, and the bestselling author of many books including The Purpose Driven Life which has sold more than 30 million copies.
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