Looking backwards. Looking forwards.

"Our past is like a footprint. It only confirms we were there. No burden on our future does it bear." Jeb Dickerson

It struck me recently that we are all of us more than our pasts.  We are not who we have been, or where we've been and we are certainly not the things that we have experienced.  All of these are perhaps aspects of ourselves today, and that is precisely the point, for I believe very strongly that we are ever evolving, and constantly in flux, changing and growing.  That's partly why I do the work I do - in the belief that we have the potential for infinite change.  Our possibilities are limitless. 

We are, I think, both where we've been and what we've seen, and where we're headed and what we want to see on the journey in front of us.  Whenever somebody reaches out and comes to a first appointment, it feels important to spend as much time exploring what's happened so far, as what they'd like to happen next.  We are nothing if we have not hope. 

“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.” 

Charles R. Swindoll (American writer and clergyman, b. 1934)