We need not let yesterday hold tomorrow hostage

I was just reading a talk by Elder Neal A. Maxwell this morning and wanted to post it for the day, something to think about. It is a talk he gave on discipleship, being a follower of Jesus Christ and living the principles we are taught in the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. What a blessing to know the source of all truth, that no matter what may happen to us in our mortal journey, we can have peace and understanding that no mortal can give. That is priceless, especially when trying to make sense of our personal daily tutorials.

Well, here it is. Elder Maxwell is talking about those we read of in the Book of Mormon who struggle to understanding the 'dealings of that God that created them.'

"Without gospel perspective in our lives, we just won't "get it" either. Special moments will come and go unused and unnoticed. How we manage those moments in daily life ends up either developing character or disintegrating character.
These moments of truth may be small, but they give us a chance to express character. Mercifully, when we make mistakes we can recover and learn from them by "faith unto repentance." We cannot, of course, relive a particular moment in our lives, but we can use it as a spiritual spur to remake ourselves. We need not let yesterday hold tomorrow hostage.
People always matter, of course, but the more I think about this interplay of immortal individuals and immortal principles, it is almost as though the particular tactical situation merely serves as a temporary, focal catalyst for what is really going on. Some other tactical situation might have served just as well. In any case, it is for each of us as immortals to make of these moments in daily life that which eternal principles would have us make of them.” (The Pathway of Discipleship, Neal A. Maxwell, January 4, 1998)