Delete Or Repeat

Delete or Repeat

When deleting something on our computers, a prompt usually asks, “Are you sure you want to delete this?”

Another message may pop up on the screen, which reads, “If you delete, your information will be permanently removed, are you sure you wish to continue? If so, press the delete button again.

Those questions help us understand that once we delete that item, then it will not be accessible to us in the future.

Call to Action: As I thought about this, I wondered what it would do for my life, my emotional and mental wellbeing, if I deleted some things in my life? Delete them so I could not access them in the future; What do I wish to delete?

I came up with a list, maybe you would agree:

I will delete my habit of worrying; for it is mostly of the past which I can’t change anyway.

I will delete my habit of procrastinating; knowing that it’s better to be prompt and plan, then do my plans promptly.

I will delete my fears. Fear of failure. Fear of trying and failing. Fear of not being accepted. Why? Fear is a lack of faith in the future, usually based on bad things in the past.

I will delete my bad relationships; knowing they tend to pull me down and at times, push me in the wrong direction.

I will delete all the “Ifs, ands, and buts” of how I could have, should have, and would have done things differently.

Knowing that what is done is done. I should first go to God and ask forgiveness for the sins of yesterday. Then I should make changes in my life of what I can. Finally, I should focus on doing my best in the future.

What next?

Once this has been done, I realize I now have a new clean page or file with which to work. As I began to fill the new page, what do I fill it with?

Personal: I am one who does not enjoy typing, so I naturally love the copy and paste features that the computer provides. I find what I like, and think will work, I copy and then past.

Call to Action: Applying this to my life, I look at the past, think about what I would like to repeat, then determine to do it again. This is much like copy and paste.

What do I wish to repeat?

I will repeat my desire to allow faith in God and His love for me to override all my future actions, as I did in the past.

I will repeat my trust in the hope that in every person there is some goodness found.

I will repeat the need to remember the perfect commandments of God and to allow them to keep me in check in whatever I do, wherever I go, and whatever I plan.

I will repeat actions of love and concern for those God puts in my path, knowing that there are no accidents, no coincident, only God’s purpose and plan.

I will repeat the practice of proofing my work and the message it gives, how my words, actions and deeds will be perceived by others.

Before I save my work, I will turn to the Holy Spirit to do a spell and grammar check as an added precaution; because once it has been sent or printed, it cannot be undone.

As I send it, I send if off with a prayer to God for his blessing.

Challenge: What do you need to delete or repeat in your life?

Here's a poem I wrote and used along with the illustration.

DELETE OR REPEAT?

Delete or repeat?

Two questions I face.

“Delete or repeat?

Both require God’s grace.

As I think of my yesterdays,

can I let go of what I should?

When I live out my tomorrows,

will I repeat only the good?

Delete or repeat?

Two choices I see.

Delete or repeat?

Which one will it be?

Will I learn from my past,

then put it out of sight?

Will I plan for the future,

to do what I know is right?

Delete or repeat?

These choices face you.

Delete or repeat?

Friend, what will you do?

©December 2014 - Loyd C Taylor, Sr.