Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. I believe God has

amazing things in your future. I hope you enjoy this message.

Listen, I want to remind us to spend our time investing in our future. Don't invest in the past.

Investing in the past is when you relive your hurts, your pains, your disappointments.

See, it's easy to focus on who hurt you. What didn't work out? What mistake you made. But you know

what that is? It's a big waste of time and energy. We can't do anything about what happened in our

past. It's done. It's over with. It's finished. But we can do something about today.

And when you begin to focus on what you can change and not what you can't change, that is a good

investment in the future. You know, we weren't designed to carry around a lot of unnecessary

negative baggage. And sometimes we fill our bags with bitterness, resentment, heartache.

But can I tell you that you've got to get up every day and let that stuff go? Forgive the people

who offended you. Release them. Forgive yourself. You see, when you are weighed down with all of this

junk, it's hard to see where you're going. It's hard to even be ready to get there.

One time, Joel and I, we had scheduled back-to-back work trips. We really don't ever do this. But

this just happened to be an instance that we did this. We had come home from a week out and we came

back in and we only had like two hours to be at home. And then we'd have to turn around, head back

to the airport. Well, on the way home, all I could think about was those dirty clothes in my suitcase.

There was a week's worth of dirty clothes in my suitcase. When I got home, I dumped all those

dirty clothes and I began to refresh my suitcase. Something amazing happened. Where I was tired and

anxious on my way home just thinking about all that in my suitcase, I became refreshed. And you

know what? I was prepared to go on my next trip because I had exchanged that dirty clothes with

fresh new clothes. And do you know a lot of times we get so weighed down with this emotional baggage

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