{"id":344,"date":"2019-01-11T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/ive-learned-my-lessons-about-look-backs\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:16:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:16:17","slug":"ive-learned-my-lessons-about-look-backs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve Learned My Lessons About Look Backs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s been several weeks since I was able to make my trek back to Tulsa and I\u2019ve missed everything and everyone there, especially Mom and my besties! I\u2019m glad I\u2019m heading there today, even in the rain AND cold! <\/p>\n

When I moved to Frisco from Tulsa in 2016, I promised God I wouldn\u2019t look back and wish I were still there. Famous last words. I’m glad God didn\u2019t turn me into a pillar of salt like Lot\u2019s wife when she looked back at Sodom and Gomorrah! I\u2019ll admit I\u2019ve missed my friends and family and familiar places. I haven\u2019t wished to move back, but I have looked back on the best parts of living there. Selective thinking and remembering. Isn\u2019t it funny how, when we\u2019re missing something or someone, we don\u2019t think about the negatives associated with them? And there were plenty. There were some tough and crazy times and my precious husband became fatally ill, but I’ve locked up the vault on those memories and throwing away the key! <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the deal. As long as we keep looking backward, we\u2019re not making progress going forward. In Luke 9:62, Jesus told the disciple \u201cAnyone who puts a hand to the plow and then looks back is not fit for the Kingdom of God.\u201d Yikes! Thanks, God, for the reminder! I want to be fit for your Kingdom! <\/p>\n

Why is it that we have such a longing to look back? God knows we are prone to backward glances and thinking about our mistakes and failures along with our successes and victories. We can learn from those experiences, but as long as we\u2019re looking back, we can\u2019t move forward. Living in those memories keeps us looking in the rear view mirror instead of looking ahead to where we’re going. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to \u201cLet it Go\u201d (Hark! Do I hear Elsa from “Frozen” belting out her song?) I mean \u201cLet go of the past \u2013 we can\u2019t change it so it\u2019s time to move forward. The past is the past and, yes, though we have fond memories of precious loved ones and times we hold near and dear to our hearts, but I\u2019m sure we all have past experiences, relationships, and memories that we\u2019re all ready to bury and forget about. Literally, it\u2019s a new day. We can do nothing about our past, but we can do everything about our today and tomorrow, especially when it comes to thanking God for His many blessings and living in those blessings TODAY!<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ll give hugs and warm embraces to my dear ones AND even visit some of my favorite places while I\u2019m there. But, God knows my heart and how grateful I am for precious new friends, new places, new faces, and new opportunities to love THIS place! I won\u2019t be looking back, but looking forward with great expectation to what today and tomorrow holds. One thing\u2019s for sure. God holds me and he holds my hand in THIS place! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been several weeks since I was able to make my trek back to Tulsa and I\u2019ve missed everything and everyone there, especially Mom and my besties! I\u2019m glad I\u2019m heading there today, even in the rain AND cold! When I moved to Frisco from Tulsa in 2016, I promised God I wouldn\u2019t look back…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[290,291,292,293,294,295,296,297,298,299,300,301,302],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elsa-frozen","tag-future-and-a-hope","tag-god-holds-my-hand","tag-great-expectation","tag-hand-tothe-plow","tag-let-go-of-the-past","tag-let-it-go","tag-look-back","tag-lots-wife","tag-luke-962","tag-pillar-of-salt","tag-sodom-and-gomorrah","tag-tulsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9014,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/9014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}