The Past

"Most people think they learn best through adversity. You have a saying upon your earth: 'No pain, no gain,' and that is not true. You don't have to suffer to learn. You can learn in perfect happiness. You don't have to be in pain to learn something.

How many people here saw the movie of 'The Lion King'? There is a scene in that, in which the lion is beleaguering himself, trying to make a decision. He doesn't want to do this and he thinks he should have to do that and so on. He is thinking that it was his fault that his father was trampled to death. Even though it wasn't, the lion is thinking that. So a baboon comes up with a club and he whacks the lion over the head and the lion says, 'Ow! What was that?' The baboon said, What is the difference? It is past!'

Now there is a very good lesson there. Don't hang onto past pain. Everybody has a horror story of something that happened in their life, or in their childhood perhaps, but it does you no good to dwell on it or to use it as a reason for you to be less than you could be now. There is no reason. It is over, It is done. Forgive whoever participated. Forgive yourself for choosing it and go on with your life because, like the whack on the head, it is over. You don't have to think about it anymore.

A lot of people dwell in the past or they use the past as an excuse. 'Well, I can't succeed because I was always taught that I was a failure.' Well, who are you going to believe, the Spirit of God which is in you or somebody else telling you that you can't do something? Listen to the truth of you. Listen to the voice of intuition. That is the voice of God talking to you."

10/19/2025 Blog. Archangel Gabriel, INTRODUCTION TO PRACITCAL SPIRITUALITY, Pgs. 38-39 Copyright 2013 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved. To buy this book, please click here.