"Go Forward."

-"Go Forward"-

(The above quote was made by General George S. Patton, Jr.)

I found this poem in a book. Someone (I don't know who) had ripped it out of a magazine. I don't know who made it up, but it was made in 1999, (a whole ten years).

I hope you view your life like history; meaning, I hope you learn from the past, not live in it. It's like a preacher once said, "The car designer didn't put side-view mirrors on the car for driving. He put side-view mirrors on the car so that you might see what is behind you. You drive a car by looking forward."

God, like the car designer, allows us to occasionally look back, to see where we once were. But, it is by looking forward that we drive, as already stated.

Here it is:

"This is a day of new beginnings,
time to remember and move on,
Time to believe what love is bringing,
laying to rest the pain that's gone.
For by the life and death of Jesus.
God's mighty Spirit, now as then,
Can make for us a world of difference,
as faith and hope are born again.
Then let us, with the Spirit's daring
Step from the past and leave behind
Our disappointment, guilt, and grieving,
seeking new paths, and sure to find.
Christ is alive, and goes before us
to show and share what love can do.
This is a day of new beginnings:
our God is making all things new.