Look how far I came...

Graham's new thing on our walks includes him looking behind us to show us how far we have come.  It all started with my husband encouraging him to continue on his tricycle and showing him that he had already come so far on it! Mostly because Dad didn't want to have to wheel the trike by himself around the block! :)

So...now as we walk, Graham is looking behind him to see how far he has come. I stop each time and acknowledge our distance accomplished while encouraging the distance yet to be completed. These walks fill my heart with joy...time spent with my little ones, but it is far from a cardio workout!

In the way Christ usually speaks, I uttered the words, Graham, if we spend all our time looking backward, we'll miss what's up ahead. And then I realized He was speaking to me.

So many times, we look backward...look at how things have gone and wish they could change. Walking a different path could have ended us elsewhere, but this is the path we have chosen (or has been chosen for us!) and so, here we are. But time spent looking backward is time spent missing the blessings Christ has ahead for us.

There are days my Bible doesn't get opened...weeks my Bible spends in the car between Sundays...I am not perfect. But I know that if I look forward, my path is wide open and waiting with options and blessings I never knew possible if only I'd quit looking back.

What do we look back at? The hurt we've endured, the loss we've grieved, the missed chances...the list goes on and on...

But oh how much sweeter it is to walk forward walking toward Jesus and what He has in store for us.

Walk on to your next MOMent...
Rachel