Your checkered past is not the pattern of your future.
All of us come to the time and place in our lives of choosing life over death, faith over fear, and light over darkness.
Sometimes the only way to move forward is to look behind you and see whatβs keeping you from moving ahead.
It is a gift of surrender one receives from their Creator to give up and sacrifice all back to him. It is a gift to be admired, not to be coveted.