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Blank Pages: Learning to Begin Again…

10/15/2014

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By Martha M. Bradley

As she turns the chapters in the book she calls her life, she sees a dark past and a future that looks grim. 
The pages in the front of the book represent her past. They are dirty and torn because SHE finds herself 
reading & reliving the events listed there over and over again. The more SHE reads them and relives them 
her future begins to look darker and darker and for some reason SHE can’t get past her pain long enough 
to realize that the pages near the end of the book that represent her future are actually blank. After years 
and years of reading the first six chapters over and over again, SHE finally asked herself, “Can someone 
help me fix my broken life?”

We can go through life comparing our individual lives to different people and to different things. We 
secretly live in guilt and shame because of the things that we’ve done or been through. We swim in that 
guilt & shame, even though it hurts us to do so. Why? Why do we keep reliving our past hurts & pains if 
they only continue to cause us more hurt and pain? This is a question I do not have the answer to because 
I believe everyone has their own reasons for not letting these things go. I believe that some of us do not 
understand how holding on to negative experiences immobilize us. Maybe some just feel powerless not 
realizing that they can regain their power by letting go. As long as we live in a state of un-forgiveness we 
give others (the offender) power over us. 
In the beginning, I spoke of blank pages at the end of the book. The pages are not blank because her 
future is uncertain, they are blank because as soon as she places herself in the position to move beyond 
her past she can begin again. She can write a new story and prophetically dictate how her story will end. 
The wonderful thing about life is that we are often presented with opportunities to begin again. Every 24 
hours presents a new day; at the end of the 7th day a new week is presented and so on. Not only have we 
entered a new year, we’ve just begun a new season. Stop reading the old chapters of your life over and 
over again and learn how to begin again!
***From TBLE Newletter
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