
03/28/2024
Footprints in the Sand.
Past mistakes. Many of us have them. I know I certainly have a huge abundance of them. Sometimes it feels like I carry those mistakes around with me, Weighing me down... not giving me the freedom to move ahead. To forgive myself- to give myself the grace and understanding that I am human and I will continue to make mistakes.
As I was walking along a beach recently on vacation, I saw my footprints in the sand being Erased as the waves came up to greet the shore. I thought: what if I thought of my mistakes as footsteps in the sand... Mistakes that are behind me now that I cannot change. But I can change my perception of them. I can look at those steps as made in concrete... Permanent... Worse yet picking them up and carrying them with me and being weighed down by the Burden of them. Or I can look at those mistakes as footsteps in the sand... Every human leaves their imprint whether it's footsteps or in other ways. What if I chose emotionally to look at those footsteps as being erasable by the waves. Erasing my past mistakes mentally so that I have the freedom to move forward and create New. Create abundance. Create freedom of expression. Create a new life, instead of carrying around the past.
What if... Instead of viewing past mistakes as permanent, We looked at them as erasable. Able to be washed away...at least partially...at least for this moment...and then we have permission to erase again and again... not stuck in the past, but more free to move forward...
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