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The Bridge

What is worse than crossing back over The Bridge to a place you committed to leaving behind?  A bridge that was shattered as you left behind memories that no longer served you and yet you fight to go back even though The Bridge and what you left behind no longer exists.

Know what I mean? It was a struggle, you prayed to cross over, to make it to the other side…and now that you made it to the other side, you want to go back.

We are such victims of our own selves, driven by undesirable needs and wants, not always knowing what’s best, gravitating towards things which feel good yet are not.

The bridge my friend represents the world on one side and Jesus on the other.

It is a struggle… constantly…. but if we keep on the side where Jesus is we have guarantees that will allow us to experience the best that Life has to offer us. Provision, protection, favour which may be hard to see and it is a new way, one that is not familiar but yet one that we have to believe in faith belongs to us.

Encountering The bridge is a significant-part of our life trajectory and if once crossed, we understand and decidedly accept that it’s (The Bridge) no longer there, then I hope when we go back to try and return to what we left behind, we will think twice turn ourselves around and run fast, run free.

What will you do?

I am leaving this place now,
letting go of all my fears,
saying good-bye to the memory I hold dear
I can finally breath again,
it’s a new day fair well past,
as I close this chapter I set free at last
(oh! am saying
made up my mind-there’s no turning back
the past is behind me-there’s no looking back
I’m looking forward not behind
I’ve made a decision-to give you my life
and no looking back and its and no looking back and there no looking back

Taken from Damita Haddon’s Song – No Looking Back

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