Anyone that knows me, knows that around October/November, I begin to reflect on the year and look forward to the upcoming year. I think about the successes and opportunities. I think about what I would like to do better in the coming year.

This past year, I realized that I have been married to the past. Clinging to it with a death grip, unable to move forward.

I realized that while I have dreamt of a future of peace, joy, hope… There was no chance of it while I was so busy looking back, hanging on to what was dead.

They talk about soul ties.

When your soul is tied to what is dead and gone… Former relationships, former jobs, former _______ (you fill in the blank as it applies) – how can you ever live the abundant life that Jesus Christ came so that we might live? What hope have we? What does our soul have to wait for?

I’m not waiting for the new year, I’m not waiting to make a resolution… I have decided to renounce the weight of my past. I have decided to look to the hills, where my help comes from. I have decided to wait for the Lord, and hope in His Word.