Topic: Starting Over From Where You Are

When you have to start over, you need to start from where you are…not from where you have been and not from where you want to be. Starting over implies tremendous change has taken place and what was once in motion has stopped. When we have encountered some kind of tremendous adversity and we need to start over, our tendency is to try and remake things in the same shape they were in yesterday. As difficult starting over can be, we cannot go back in time. As much as we want to go back in time and make things like they might have been yesterday, we cannot remake things as they were. When we start over, we must know exactly and precisely where we are at the moment. We should strive to know exactly and precisely where we want to go in the next moment. When we do not know where we want to be in the next moment, we will never get to where we want to go. When we know we are someplace at the moment but do not know precisely where we are, we will wander around in an aimless fashion, all the while wondering what is wrong. Our present moment is the only place where we can really live. Our present moment is the only moment from which we can start anew. We can treasure or trash our past, but we can only live and start over in the present. The present moment offers us a chance at real victory. The present moment offers us a chance for peace, for friendship, and for all the great blessings of life. When we do not live in the present or start over in the present, the future slips away as our past becomes eternally unreachable.

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These words were posted at one of Shepherd's Care Ministries Sites called Wisdom Moment. This site is located at:
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