Just a thought by coppi

Don’t allow your past to dictate the possibilities of your future.

Don’t look in the rear view mirror, focus on the windshield- -go forward, the past is gone.  Focus on the present.

My past was a crippling experience for me.  Yes, there were mountain top experiences but oh those valleys were painful.  I just returned from my class reunion in Fredericksburg, TX.  It has been a very long time since I have seen any of them.  I went because my twin sister, Joan, asked me to go with her or I would not have gone.   I had no desire to experience feelings of the past, and I knew by going I would.   it is amazing how time and age takes care of woes.  I did not recognize anyone and they did not recognize me.  But, I was greeted with much love and joy.  Everyone was so thrilled I made the trip to Texas to be with them, and to celebrate a reunion of our time together in Fredericksburg High School so many years ago. 

I was asked to say the prayer before we ate.  Whatever i said was well received.  My boyfriend back then, grabbed my arm as I passed by him, and said “who taught you to pray”‘, to which I responded the many valleys I walked through in my long life.  He said “that’s where I learned to pray also”.  Amazing how Jesus takes us back and through life to learn the meaning of living.  I am glad I went.