{"id":67427,"date":"2019-12-22T12:29:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T10:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=67427"},"modified":"2023-07-16T12:01:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T09:01:51","slug":"face-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/face-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Face Forward!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[439,550],"acf":{"old_id":"67427","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33992,"related_cahpter":"377","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Lift our gaze to a future that might be beautifully discontinuous with the past","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a natural human tendency to look toward the past. We seek to resolve our current emotional dilemmas by unpacking the disappointments and complexities of our childhood, or trying to root out the sources of marital strife by looking more deeply at the opening chapters of our romance. We even speak of ourselves, like plants, as rooted. The past becomes a source of understanding, of validation, and sometimes of renewal as well \u2013 \u201crenew our days as of old.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But all that focus on the past comes at a heavy price as well. By framing our present in terms of our past, we grant the past the power to define and constrain the choices we are capable of perceiving today. If the current sources of our discontent don\u2019t fit with the parameters of our history, then it remains unexamined, often invisible to us now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if we made a choice not to straitjacket our future into the confines of our past? What if, instead, we imagined the future as it might be, rather than as it must be when it is merely an extension, a continuation, of what has already been?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isaiah offers us this radical turn, when he perceives God as saying \u201cDo not recall former occurrences and do not contemplate earlier events. Behold, I am bringing forth something new! Now it will sprout, and you will surely know it!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Step toward the future that is open with possibilities. The past does not exist unless you carry it with you in the present. And the future need not depend on the traumas of yesterday. Instead, we can welcome the Divine as a source of an open future, one that beckons us to choose from among many possible destinies and asks us to partner in creating the best possible tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of filtering the future through the constraints of what has already happened, we can lift our gaze to a future that might be beautifully discontinuous with the past. Just because something has always been doesn\u2019t mean it must always be. It just means that habit and culture are hard to break. But every first time is an impossibility until someone does it, and every great dynasty was launched by someone who saw themselves not as a descendant, but as an ancestor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagine the future ample enough for your dreams, and then go make it happen.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":67429,"id":67429,"title":"is43-uplifting","filename":"is43-uplifting.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/face-forward\/is43-uplifting\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"is43-uplifting","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":67427,"date":"2019-12-22 10:29:08","modified":"2019-12-22 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