TRANSFORMING OUR PAST

The dead Past is passed;
It cannot be changed.
But it can be transformed.......

We begin to transform our past when we accept blameless, grateful responsibility for it
For no reason other than
It suits us better.
Blaming circumstances or others for our history
Is keeping us stuck
With the drive wheels spinning,
Blowing a lot of acrid smoke
And losing traction by the second.

Once we accept loving responsibility as being Probable Cause of --
And giving willing connivance to --
Our background and conditioning,
Along with the people and energies that have helped us shape what we've become......
Then,
And only then,
Can we totally love and be in Gratitude
For the whole of what we have created ourself to become thus far.
Without what has been,
We could not have become what we are,
And without what we are,
We cannot become what we aspire to be.
Only from the totality of what we now are,
And have been,
Can we be-come.............