Today doesn’t define tomorrow
It’s just a few days into the new year and already it’s been rough for us. There are moments when it’s hard to resist giving up and labeling it “just another difficult year.” But, with more than 98% of the year left to unfold, it is way too soon to “call it”. There’s no way to know what lies ahead. It would be superstitious, or even just plain silly, to make an assumption about the whole year based on just a few days. Yet, for many of us, this urge to extrapolate the future based on our experiences in this moment is difficult to shake. In our counseling practice, we often hear it—from both strugglers AND their families. They make statements like “I’ve had a lot of cravings to act out this week,” “I had another slip,” or “I caught my husband lying to me again” followed with the pronouncement that “nothing’s changed—it never will.”We don’t realize how self-fulfilling this train of thinking can be. It saps us of hope and keeps us from taking the simple steps that will lead us to a better outcome. In reality, we WILL have hard times. We WILL have difficult days. We WILL make wrong choices. But they don’t define our future . . . unless we let them.
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it” Proverbs 4:23 (NIV)
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