Blog 3323 – 12.08.2024

Forgetting the Past, Press On

Although as I suggested in a blog several days ago that in life and in driving it may be advisable to check our rear view mirror occasionally, we should focus primarily on where we are now and where we are going. As today’s picture quote says so aptly we should never be prisoner of our past, but remember that however horrible, monstrous, or even traumatic or even fantastic that things were in our past, they were only lessons to be learned from so we can move on to bigger and better things.

So many lives are shipwrecked or frozen in time because of some terrible event in the past or some good ole days or glory days experience. For many the holidays are spoiled because they are reminded of the dearly departed and feel they cannot be merry or happy as if being so would insult their loved one’s memory. It is a silly notion for those we have loved and lost would want us to be happy and to enjoy our lives.

The best testimony of a good or great marriage is not that it spoils you for ever trying to find that kind of relationship again with someone else after your partner has passed. On the contrary it is a bad match that should make us wary. A good one should encourage us to try again. Life, my friends, is mean to be good, and I believe it is best lived in relationship. Friends, family, and intimate partners bring out the best in us and remind us that the best is yet to be.

Have a wonderful first day of the rest of your life.

A favorite quote of my lovely and loving wife, Linda Lee, has always been, “Come grow old with me, the best is yet to me.” A New Testament writer nailed it I think with the line, “Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those which are before, I press toward the mark for the high calling…”

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White