YOUR PAST WAS DESIGNED TO POLISH YOU

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 YOUR PAST WAS DESIGNED NOT TO PUNISH YOU BUT TO POLISH YOU

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Your past was not designed to punish you but to polish you.


 But it can only polish you when you pick up the necessary lessons from your past and move on. Yesterday is gone, the events of yesterday are past, you cannot do anything about them. You cannot even correct or amend them. Therefore, leave them there and look ahead.

 If you fall, you should rise again. Even a new baby does not learn how to walk the very first day. Whenever you fall, rise again. Why? Because you do not belong there on the floor. Barrister Paul of Tarsus said, “Forgetting those things that are behind” and we are also told in Isaiah to “Remember not the former things and not to consider things of old.”



If there is anything at all from your past that you should remember, let it be your great successes and accomplishments. Your triumphs and not your trials are what you should keep in remembrance. You never find a general in the army who does not have a scar but at the end you find two or three stars on his shoulders. That means that there is sometimes no star without a scar. So I am encouraging you today not to dwell on the scar because there is a star for you ahead.

I want to leave you with the words of a very ancient philosopher whose name is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who said: “Look not mournfully on the past for it comes not again. Wisely improve the present for that is the thing and go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and a manly heart.”

Brush up the negative past from your memory and see how beautiful your life will become.

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