past to future

Taken from Celtic Daily Prayer…

‘I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, to give you a hope and a future’ (Jer 29:11). God can take events of the past and weave them so skillfully into a new plan for us that not only do we find there is a future for us after all, but it is if there have been no wasted years.
CHRIST BEHIND ME
There He walks in your past. He walks in all the dark rooms you pretend are closed, that He may bring light. Invite Him into your past. Experience His forgiveness, His acceptance of you. Offer especially all that you are ashamed of…all that you wish to forget…all that still pains and hurts you….all the hurt you have caused others. Walk there in the places you are afraid of, knowing that He walks with you and will lead you on!

CHRIST BEFORE ME
He forever goes before us to prepare a place for us. He is on the road we tread. Wherever life is leading us, He has gone before. Perhaps we have no clue about what lies ahead; we know who is ahead of us, so the future is not quite unknown.

~ by David Adams, The Edge of Glory