by Katherine Harrington
Mourning an imaginary life, We dream dreams and make plans and chart a course for our future days and then the unexpected happens–the thing that changed it all, totally out of your control, a happenstance.
The repercussions follow us, nothing is as we had hoped or plan for. There is sadness and remorse and grief over dreams lost, shattered by the reality of what is. When we do not let go, when we hold on to what we hoped for, dreamed of, even expected, we find ourselves in a state of continuously mourning an imaginary life. It robs us of living in the today and enjoying nearly everything. Be brave, courageous and let go, there is so much beauty in your today that is waiting for you!
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
Joshua 1:9
Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed. With great pains I have provided for the house of the LORD 100,000 talents of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone, too, I have provided. To these you must add. You have an abundance of workmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and all kinds of craftsmen without number, skilled in working gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Arise and work! The LORD be with you!”
1 Chronicles 22:13-16