Letting Go of Yesterday’s Hurts: Embracing Today’s Blessings

Can one gather the globular proteins of an egg smashed on the floor and ultimately reassemble it into its original form? I do not think so.

Can one separate the bubbles from the soda bottle, which is in a gaseous state once it effervesces as carbon dioxide into the air from the one we breathe out?

If your answer to the two questions above is no, why wish to recall and undo all the countless yesterdays from birth, which would include the good, the bad, and the ugly?

It is good to recall how one gets to a particular bus stop so as not to make the same errors twice on that same journey. But it becomes a euphemism that reflects brooding to dwell on yesterday’s mistakes perpetually and do nothing to make today positively count. Doing so will destroy the fabric of your today, which you still have control over.

Once a reflection comes, use it to make today better and move on. Ingraining any hurt to the too many hurts of yesterday destroys one’s health in installments. One needs a clear head to confront the many challenges of today. Stop complicating your beautiful day with the yesterdays you have no control over. One of the ways to do this is to ask God for wisdom to leave a seed of good behind in your daily journeys. It becomes difficult to turn the soup inside a pot with plentiful meat, which overwhelms the size of the pot, other smoothened ingredients, and the recipes.

Trying to accurately recount the events of one’s many yesterdays on a second-by-second basis is like a journey through the fog. It dissipates the energy needed to make today blissful. Even those with good memory journals miss out on some events. No matter how good one is at journal entries, accounting for every second of the many yesterdays in a lifetime spent before this morning is an exercise in futility. Why concentrate on a past that has effervesced, like the carbon released from a sealed soda? Remember that your today shall add to your many yesterdays in the next twenty-four hours. So, try not to add this day to the other hurtful “yesterdays.”

I have been hurt many times. I have also broken many others too. I have my crosses I am carrying, and so does everyone else. Though some crosses are heavier than others, one thing we should not do is remain broken or fall under the yoke and never get up.

I do not know what you are going through, but what matters is how positively you deal with those troubling hurts and turn them into joy. Whether to live under the bondage of the quantum of hurts in your past or dwell in the positives to make today count to the glory of God is your choice. I am rising now to go and learn from an expert. I am leaving now to seek knowledge and trust that I will return a happier me in the evening.

Given the above, my friend, I can only wish you the best you want for yourself. May you live today according to the divine dictates of ever-knowing Jehovah with fruitful results and moments. May your today be blessed and more excellent than all your many yesterdays!

Grace and peace!!!