First off, this isn’t stemming from a particular thing I need to let go of. It’s more of a ponder….and things in general.
How do you let go of things, issues, whatever? I’m one of those people that replays the days events in my head as I lay in bed before I fall asleep. I did this all the time in high school (albeit, over much more trivial issues than currently occupy my mind these days).
What shouldn’t I have said, what should I have done, what shouldn’t I have done, who should I have helped, instead of just walked by? What shouldn’t I have poured so much time into & what could I have been doing instead?
Now I know in my head, if you do something against what, as morally we as Christians believe is wrong, we have the awesome gift to be able to seek forgiveness from God and move on, don’t dwell, just accept his forgiveness and move on. Right? But how? Sometimes it seems so hard to, I just obsess over situations, and replay it over and over.
Even if it’s not a sin that needs forgiveness, just perhaps an awkward “social encounter”, for lack of a better term, “I should/shouldn’t have said ____ to that person”. I have a hard time getting over it, and forgetting about it and moving on.
Too sensitive? Perhaps. Streaks of perfectionism that run in my veins? I know it.
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M -- you're not at all unique in this struggle (BTW, love the photo you used). Check out Phil 3:7-15, especially verse 13. I am grateful that you have a grasp on what this passage means which is the beginning of living it, only with God's help. I don't think that many people have completely appropriated forgiveness, especially the toughest kind directed at yourself. But in putting one foot in front of the other and seeking Jesus' help, He'll eventually get us to where we all should be -- keep moving, along with me/us, Sweetie.
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