Recently as I was listening to my favorite life church podcast it made me start thinking about my past and how at times I let it follow me around like a shadow. One of my favorite priest we had here, Father Lim, used to say this all the time, ” Once we have asked for forgiveness of our sins, our sins are cast out into the sea of forgetfulness, it is us that fishes them back out.” I loved when he said this because it was such a good reminder. Why do we fish our past back out? Why do we grant our past control of how we see our future? There will be times that I am doing just fine and I will be reminded of something I did or said that makes me feel shame and the guilt comes back. My past has shamed me, it has caused me to feel an awful amount of regret, and it has made me feel that there is no way that I can fully be forgiven. It’s the enemy that plants seeds of doubt into our minds to make us question whether or not we have really been…