Bygones Part 1

This little first year of life has gone by!

Happy 1st Birthday sweet Florida girl!

Bygones: "Don’t worry about the past; forgive and forget. Although the idea dates from ancient times, the wording comes from the seventeenth century, when it was cited by several writers as a proverb or parable. It continued to be widely quoted (byScott, Tennyson, and Shaw, among others). The word bygone, meaning “past,” dates from the fourteenth century andsurvives principally in the cliché." From  Idioms by the Free Dictionary

This lull in life, we are experiencing, allows us a quiet time for reflection (unless you are home with a houseful of children) as many of you are.

A very wise friend emailed that while being in "Lenton  mode" and reflecting on giving some "thing" up the Lord took her in a different direction.  Instead of giving up something not good for us we could look at giving up emotions and attitudes that keep us from being more like Jesus. What a great idea. She shared that on her list were things like fear, worry, anxiety, unforgiveness, anger, guilt, discontentment, self-righteousness, and a judgmental attitude.

Now there's a great "bygone" list!  Ask the Lord what needs to be gone from our hearts.

"If you forgive others for the wrongs they do to you, your Father in heaven will forgive you."  Matthew 6:14

A friend shared this on her Facebook post.

“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.

"And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.

"And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed."
~Kitty O'Meara