Leave Your Past Behind Part 2

Okay, we have written about our past and the negative thinking...we have given ourselves one day to wallow in the immensity of our sadness and grief. You may need another day or two but I think I'm done...and now it's time to give it all over to God.

Dear Heavenly Father, please help me to rid myself of these negative thoughts. Please help me to understand that I am a masterpiece created by you and for you. That everything that has happened to me has happened with your great and powerful hand covering it knowing that you alone can pull me out of these negative thoughts. Knowing that you alone, can bring me to your peace and guidance. Lord, whenever these thoughts come back into my head, and I know they will over and over, please help me to realize that I just need to turn them over to you and you will wash them away until I fully believe they are gone. Lord, help me to know your purpose for my life and follow your guidance with all I have, am and will be.

Our next step to leaving the past behind is to recall a time that healing occurred in your life. When I think about this I think about how God blessed me over and over with kind and thoughtful people when I was going through my divorce. From the time I set foot in Evergreen Community Church, I found a support group that would be there for me always. I know, even 8 years later, that I could call upon any of the women in my DivorceCare group and they would set down their work to listen to me. God used everyone from this group to heal the wounds of my divorce and to show me that it was that hardship that caused me to gain my life back. So Kathy, Faye, Rachael, Cindy and Dawn, thank you for your support and letting God use you to guide me back into LIFE. With this group of women I was able to listen, learn, laugh, love and enjoy again. They taught me that I am a masterpiece of God's creation and no matter what happened in the past, this is the future He planned for me. In this group I gained my life verse, "For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you." Jeremiah 29. 11. This was my time of healing.

What was your time of healing? What helped to guide you along your path to God? What did it feel like?