Today I accept the futility of carrying on a constant argument with the past. It is my responsibility to work through and release what was painful in my past and is in my way today. No matter how much I may wish certain things had been different, I have no power to change them. Once I confront my pain, shame and anger and understand them for what they are, I can extract the wisdom I gained from those experiences, reframe them in a new light and move on. There is no need to dwell on the past if I am willing to accept it as it was. Sometimes my denial of my own past and my insistence on pretending that it didn’t hurt keep me caught up in it. In allowing myself to be loyal to my own truth as I saw it, I can walk up to the closed doors within my own heart and open them.

I can live with my past just as it was.

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon