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Your Past Is Not Supposed To Be Your Shadow

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…

What Really Has Your Heart

For a few weeks I have felt this heaviness and this nagging at my heart God was speaking to me, and I could feel it I just didn’t want to listen. Maybe it’s because I don’t want to admit that I was doing anything wrong. Maybe it’s because the fear of letting go of something is going to have major backlash on what I am trying to do. Then yesterday at mass with Father Bose and today on my podcast with Craig Groeschel I was reminded that I am trying to run from what God is trying to show me. I have one too many distractions in my line of sight to keep me from seeing what God is trying to show me. Have you ever experienced this? When you try to ignore it, it just keeps showing up in all different places until it smacks you right in the face.  I allow myself to become very distracted with things in this world that takes my heart and my eyes off of what God is trying to get to me to do. Writing my blog is important for me I really enjoy…