My journals are in a paper bag, ready to recycle. My God, Who knows and remembers all, will bring to my memory anything I need to know when I need it. Funny how free I feel. Was the past an anchor, holding me back? Then I’m not sorry to let it go.
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Yet, my brothers, I do not consider myself to have “arrived”, spiritually, nor do I consider myself already perfect. But I keep going on, grasping ever more firmly that purpose for which Christ grasped me. My brothers, I do not consider myself to have fully grasped it even now. But I do concentrate on this:
I leave the past behind and with hands outstretched to whatever lies ahead I go straight for the goal—my reward the honour of being called by God in Christ. Philippians 3:12-14 J.B. Phillips New Testament