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On year later..
One year ago today I posted my first blog. The site has changed several times and evolved into what we have before us now. 12,633 hits, 31 blogs, 70 comments, 444 miles across Iowa on a bike, over 8,000 miles to Burma and back, 1,500 miles to California and back, and 365 days later I am where I stand now.
Looking back over the past year it's amazing how things have changed, how God has worked in my life, and where I am compared to where I was. Looking back even further it's hard to believe that 5 years ago I was the same person I am now. It seems that person was a figment of my imagination. Like a story I read once and the memory has begun to fade away. Like a movie I watched so many years ago. Sometimes I forget about my past. But that person of the past is NOT the same person I am today. I have, as Paul described it, put "off the old self, and put on the new". I know that God's forgiveness is complete and immutable, and we need to accept God's forgiveness and put our sins behind us. If we continue to feel guilt towards those sins, do we really believe in our forgiveness? Forgiveness is forgiveness. There is no condition on forgiveness, once forgiven there is no undoing. Maybe "forgetting" about my past sins is proof of acceptance of His forgiveness, whatever is the case, I'm grateful.
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