I Had A Spiritual Bowel Movement... And I Flushed It Down

So I'll start by saying, this has absolutely nothing to do with toilets. :) Last night at church, we talked about the past and how, if we don't let it die, it won't let us live. During the bible study, I couldn't help but think of all that was in my past... the endless mistakes and the consequences that followed. I learned that I would never be able to live free in Christ if I didn't learn to leave the past in the grave where it belongs. At the end of the message, Ryan challenged us all to get a piece of paper and write every mistake we could think of, that we had made at some time or another... and then we were gonna throw them in a pile at the foot of the cross hanging in our Youth Center. And so I began to write...as tears flowed down my face... I wrote... and I wrote... and I wrote... I wanted to throw it ALL away. With every stroke of the pen I could feel God cleaning me out from within... ... ...I could feel burden after burden being lifted gently off me... and then... I layed it at the foot of the cross.

And there it stays... :)
~Cam