"Free Yourself From Yesterday"

by Dr. Larry Morris

As we prepare to enter a new year, let's take a moment to allow ourselves to release this past year: we can decide right now to let go of anything or anyone from last year that we no longer wish to carry into this. A person with many burdens and problems once came to a minister from New York City named Raymond Charles Barker for advice. "What can I do to escape all these burdens?" he asked. Rev. Barker thought for a moment and he said, "Just remember one thing—yesterday ended last night.” Too often we carry too many of yesterday's hurts and pains around with us, beyond their time. We really don't have to drag last year's sorrows into the new year with us. Why not leave them behind and step into this new year fresh, innocent and open to new life. Let's let go of the old now and spring full bloom newly alive into the new—we let the past be with the past as we open our hearts to this new year.