Letting go of the past…

Letting go of the past….

Letting go of the past…

I took a little sabbatical from my writing over the last week or so. I guess I never let my blogger friends know that my cardiac MRI showed no constriction. Thank God. Hence the sabbatical. It was a time to celebrate and enjoy my family and friends. However, I did miss blogging but let’s keep that dirty little secret to ourselves.

With Christmas fast approaching, I always find the need to reflect on my life. As I reflect on the past I see my flaws and shortcomings illuminating brightly like a string of Christmas lights. They seem to go on forever and they tangle so easily around one another. I always seem to find a way to forget about my string of “good quality” lights and focus on those brightly “flawed moments” that light up my past.

I’m going to change it up a bit this year. I’m going to take a moment to look at the lights in a different way. I’m going to try my damnedest to focus on the “nice list” instead of the “naughty list”. I’m going to let the ugly past mistakes and failures take a backseat to the bright set of LED lights that define the real me.

I’ll always keep the old ugly lights on the tree just to reminder me of who I don’t want to be.
I’ll dim them slightly and let the LED lights lead the way. Now maybe I won’t have to work so hard to see the good that shines in me.