This summer or back in the spring I took Jonathan to see the movie "meet the robinsons." I'm not sure if he really gets the movies or he just likes them because I do... either way it is cool with me. That is beside the point... one of the saying of the inventor is "Keep moving forward," which you find out later that is a quote from walt disney himself. The statement couldn't be more true, in our Christian lives.

I feel like I've been blessed to experience a lot in my life. Some of the things have been great: whitewater rafting in Georgia, North Carolina, Wyoming and Colorado, traveling all over the US, going on mission trips to Mexico, Trinidad and the Grand Caymans, a loving family (I've been spoiled my whole life with this), the list could go on and on. Some of the things haven't been great, but the bad experiences in life can't stand in your way, and you can't spend you whole life in the good times either. Some people get stuck in the past, but you have to "Keep moving forward..."

We can't let the past be a hang-up for us. Paul gives us a clear vision for what we should be consumed with in Philippians 3:12-13 "...I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me His own. Brothers, I don't consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead..." The two things that grab me the most is forgetting what lies behind, and straining forward... forgetting is sometimes easy but a lot of times it hurts to move forward (straining).

God is going to stretch us far beyond ourselves, and our call is to keep moving forward in Christ.