FUTURE OR PAST

Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?

For me, I think about the future and what it will be like, but I reminisce about the past. The past was a time of challenges, facing them head on, and learning the lessons they teach.

But it is the future where everything is an unknowable experience, whether good or bad, facing the new experience, and take to heart the lessons that have not been yet, will give you insight or something to ponder, using the past as a guide to try and make a wise decision, and then incorporate it in the mind and spirit. This happens with all things that are possible in the future.

Now that I am about to turn 73 years old in April, the past gave me wisdom, discernment, along with my lof the sometimes awkward, and made me who I am today. If I were able to meet myself in the 1950s, I would find it hard to believe that I would grow up, go to university, and then enlisting in the U.S. Air Force, to put my life lessons to do the job well. Sadly, I was medically disabled, and was forced to retire with 16 years, 2 months, and 3 days of continuous Active Duty service, from 01 dat toFeb,,1973, to 04 Apr, 1989. But the DAV took my medical records and my DD-214 to the VA San Francisco office where it took 7 years to increase my Disability Rating to 80 percent disabled and eligible for VA medical care for the rest of my life. And add in that I am Individually Unemployable, and I am now receiving 100 percent VA Compen-sation for me and my spouse. I also learned early in life that God watches over all of us, and that I am blessed that God helped me through the difficult transition from military to civilian life. I learned a long time ago that I shouldn’t worry about what happens to me day to day. I give myself entirely to God to help me 1 day at a time.