Train "Moving Forward" has Departed

There are many times in our lives when we feel like we have derailed. I believe that any Christ filled life will have it's share of tribulations. I also believe, that our lives are watched over and we are continually pointed in a better direction.

It is how we choose to react or accept those nudgings that focus the direction our lives take. We can either move backward, remain stagnate, or move forward. Recent events in my life have poised me for either a reactionor a change in direction in my life. The most difficult decision of my life has come. I know I have "chosen wisely". I can say that years of hardness have melted away, by God's grace, and I am a new man. For anyone who knew me growing up, I would rather deliver a pounding, unremorsefully, than admit to a weakness in my life. I have been un-tender (sugar- coated) at times and even in the face of being confronted by the one I love the most. I think it was the metaphor, "the pot calling the kettle black" that added to my IMS (Irritable Male Syndrome). My times of un-tenderness have never been concealed, they were always in your face. The "pot" was better at concealing their un-tenderness, whereas the "kettle" (me) just spouted regardless of other kitchen pots and pans (continuing the metaphor...).

Have you ever wanted to be better than the person you are/were?
Sometimes it takes a catechlismic event to shake off the old exterior ... shedding an old snakeskin if you will.

"Moving Forward" is a motto recently adopted for my life. I have stood still and by for too long. I have put on the conductor cap and have put the "Moving Forward" train in motion. It only has one direction... and that is Forward.