It’s amazing how our minds allow us to travel. We often stop to think about something and end up being transported in time. This can become a huge problem, especially for women, because many of these trips tend to be to the past and that can destroy their present and their future.

I know a woman who was in a relationship, got pregnant and then broke up with her boyfriend. Today, more than 20 years later, she’s still living in the past, thinking about him, thinking about how happy they were, the things they did, what they talked about, etc…

She’s unable to be happy with her current husband; she’s unable to love him because that ghost from the past still haunts her thoughts all the time.

I bet that whenever she thinks about him, she pictures a young man because that’s how she remembers him. It hasn’t crossed her mind that he’s changed; he’s no longer the same. He probably doesn’t act the same way he used to and no longer thinks the same way either. He may even have gotten fat, cockeyed and bald!

She’s not the only one. There are many women facing this problem.

These women might be married but are still daydreaming about the first boyfriend they had back in 1921. They’re unable to find true happiness because their past still haunts them.

So, my friends, I advise you to stop living in the past. Only museums hold on to memories from the past and if you do the same, you might end up frozen in time, like a statue!

Isn’t that exactly what happened to Lot’s wife? (Read Genesis 19)

God ordered them to leave the city and not look back, but she couldn’t resist and turned into a pillar of salt.

Good past or bad past? It doesn’t matter. Live in the present and always work towards making it a blessing!

Nanda Bezerra