It's not just Lakota than need to learn how to leave the past behind. Each of us has to decide what kind of life and future we want for ourselves. If we hang on to the past, we can have no future. If you hang on the the pain, we will not heal. If we allow others to control how we see ourselves, we will never know how wonderful we are because we will always be standing in someone else's shadow.
As for me, I release the pain of the past and those who caused it with forgiveness and love. I don't need to remember all the details. It is enough for me to know that it was. But I also know that it is no longer. Every day I wake and seek to find the miracles of the day. Every night I say a prayer for the miracles that came to me and through me. I doing so I choose the path of love, hope and happiness.
