Letting Go and Moving Forward Recently, we were preparing for a trip to our daughter’s home in South Texas, (a six-hour drive) when a friend graciously offered to fly us there in his Piper M500 airplane. On the airplane, my husband sat in the cockpit next to our pilot friend and I was in the seat behind them. During the flight, I noticed that the plane did not have a rearview mirror. I had never thought about it before, but I realized airplanes do not have rear view mirrors because they do not need them. The ground crew watches them on the ground. Air Traffic Control handles them in the air. Our pilot was only focused on where we were going. So often in life we look at what is behind us, rather than focusing on what is ahead of us. We cannot change what has already happened. All we can change and adjust are the things that are in the present moment. I watched our pilot as he continually checked the gauges and radar to see what was happening at this moment. All that matters is the present moment because it will impact your future. A pilot knows where they are flying to and charts the course. Yes, there are deviations and adjustments along the way because of turbulence or wind direction, but the end goal does not change. When you visualize a certain outcome and know where you are headed, the past becomes more distant. There will be setbacks, adjustments, and new approaches you may have to take, but you are still on the path to move forward. Develop a short-term memory when it comes to mistakes. Be sure to learn from them but don’t dwell there and let them paralyze you. Take the lesson and keep improving as you are taking more and more action. Stay focused on your course of growth, make the adjustments and deviations necessary, but never give up on your goals. Our past experiences brought us to where we are now. But we don’t have to stay there. When you arrive at that realization, it is easier to move on and leave the past behind. That is where it belongs. Bring only the lessons with you. Look forward and travel toward your future. If we want to fly we have to leave the earth, if we want to move forward we have to let go of the past that holds us back. Paula Enloe is a wife, mother, and grandmother. She has been a paralegal for over 25 years and is a certified family mediator. She and her husband, Noble, speak and minister to churches testifying of how God brought them healing into their home and their marriage, after he was diagnosed with Stage IV Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2016. They count it as their greatest privilege to share the healing and transformational power of the Name of Jesus to each person they come in contact with daily.
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