I was just listening to this song by Caedmon's Call called "Forget What You Know" and it seemed really fitting of my life right now and I wanted to share it. Sometimes we just have to let go of past mistakes and realize that God's power is big enough to face them. We can't just sit here in our mess and kick ourselves...we have to instead reach out to the grace offered us and live in that rather than the sadness or bitterness that threatens at the doors of our hearts. There is still hope in the future. Hope of life abundant, hope of love, hope of those dreams coming true...hope of "happily everafter" happening...someday.

My friend why do you whip yourself
With the leather of your life
Why do your memories build like
Poison in your mind

You're re-running the mistakes (of your mind)
In the theater of your mind
Hoping that there'll be
A happily ever after this time

Let go
Let go
Let go
And forget what you know

You fear you've walked too far
In the hemlock forest and you are lost
But what error could you invent
With more power than the cross

Let go
Your sin is not an axe
Let go
That can fell the sacred tree
Let go
Your regret is not a net
Let go

That can dredge the forgetting sea
A wise man once told me
When I was dying just the same
The past can be like sidewalk chalk
If you will dance and pray for rain