Letting Go of the Old to Embrace the New - 2

I've been trying to figure out exactly how to do this. There's some part of me that wants to clutch the old, hold on for dear life, like a dog gnawing on a bone long denuded of anything tasty. So here's the question: why not? If that's what "comes naturally" to me, why not continue? Because, God has new, wonderful, challenging, sometimes painful, sometimes fun, very worthwhile experiences for me to tackle, but they are that: NEW. New ones. Not old, dead, hard and cold ones. New, meaty, chewy -- able to sustain me, things I can do something with/about. (You know, the Serenity prayer....) If I'm busy gnawing my old bits of the past, I can't have the life he wants for me today. I'll miss it. And that would be a shame.

Yeah, it's been a process. I've been working on this for a while. Too long. Enough. So, I'm doing it. No more gnawing. I'm saying "goodbye" to the old year, and the old things, so I can embrace the new.

Lord, I give them all to you. The dead pieces, the ones that have no place in my life today. I've done what I can with them, now they're yours. You deal with them. All of them. I'm choosing to move on to all you have for me today, and tomorrow. Please forgive me for not trusting you with the past sooner. Help me to stay in today, and look forward to tomorrow, with faith. "For I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day." (2 Timothy 1:12). So take care of it, ok? Thanks.

So... what's new?