Closing Doors on Echoes of the Past, by W.L. Washington

Bishop W.L. Washington in Closing Doors on the Echoes of the Past, reveals a fundamental life principle and that is, it is mighty hard, in fact impossible to enjoy open doors to your past. It is mighty hard to move from one season in your life to the next season if your previous season has not completed its cycle. 

According to Washington, you have to deal with past hurts, failures and disappointments. You have to learn to forgive, forsake and forget past hurts, failures and disapointments. You have to strive to move from bitter to better.

Bishop Washington posed the question to God as to why are people constantly dealing in the past, struggling in the present, and have no hint as to the future. God told him: Too Many Open Doors.

Many adults cannot properly function because something negative from their childhood has them all bound up. Deal with issues as they take place. Encourage children from an early age to "let it all out," and not to keep it bottled up. Completely close the doors to your past by settling all negativities as they occur, because as Bishop Washington warns us: "Beware of open doors, for they release the echoes of your past and draw you back to a time and place you've once endured. Learn to truly say with Paul: "...but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:13-14).