The Past & The Future

Soren writes, "It (the past) becomes quieter, it becomes gentle, it becomes sad." The Apostle always remembered who he was before he was called by Jesus. A persecutor of the early Church. He didn't live in the past but neither did he forget it. Soren advises that it is good to not look back too often while on the good path. Neither is it wise to be anxious about the future by looking ahead too often in terms of possibility; it makes time go agonizingly slow. As "anxiety borrows strength from the future." Above all, the Apostle Paul's Thorn in the Flesh "reminds us that the highest life also has its sufferings."

The takeaway is to learn from the past and prepare for the future. Don't live there.