NO.

No. I will not be bitter.
No. I will not hold a grudge.
No. I will not be defined by what happened to me.

Who said that events had the right to become titles?
Who told your mistakes had to define your shape?
Who said that?

I don't want to be angry anymore, I don't want to feel that knot.

I refuse to let the past become the lens through which I decide my future.

I am light, I am salt–I am meant to be different. Why would I refuse to cuss or be addicted or abstain from any other form of "sinful" behavior and then fall into the same old patterns of the world I was redeemed from? A price was paid for me to break patterns. In fact, a road map was written so I wouldn't get lost in this new world. So I'll do that. I'll walk by faith. I'll choose to believe His mercy is new everyday. I refuse to lose hope and sulk in the pity party so many have been ready to throw for me. NO. That is not who I am, it is not who I was saved to be. When I received my new life I was told it would be abundant and I've decided that He deserves to get what He paid for in my life.

That's all, I just wanted to make it public, to shout it from the digital rooftops. I refuse to conform and I choose to claim my life. Redeemed, transformed, and totally out of this world. I say no to the old. I say no to the pattern. I choose life, and life in abundance today. And I hope you do too.