Everyone gets a new clean slate, it is a new day, a new beginning, all sins are forgiven, all favours are fogotten. All righteousness are like filthy rags and all sins under the blood. From today each man will be dealt with according to his dealings now. Enough of carrying the luggage of past behaviour, we are not sure if that person exists anyhow, all we have is who stands before us today. He might be the same man of the past or he might be a new man. We don’t know until we observe and consider. Show me how you are today and I wil decide how I respond. I will pay you for the work you do today not that which was delivered 77 days ago and already paid for. No, we can’t sit on our laurels, sowing no seeds and expect the harvest of the good old days when we exerted ourselves, tiled the ground and planted the seed. If we want a harvest we must continue to sow.
We are notorious for taking relationship for granted, sloppying around, failing to carry our weight and believing if we were once a warm and attentive lovers we continue to deserve the affection of our loved ones even when we are now behaving like the enermy of progressive and anything good, how unreasonable we are! Maybe the expecting one is not to blame, it is in the nature of man to be opportunistic, to reap where he has not sown. It is the rewarder of such slothful behaviour that we need to call into question and ask why. Even nature knows better not to reward a man that has not sown. Nature does not say, ‘you know what, you have been a diligent farmer for 28 years sowing your seeds faithfully and tilling the ground and I always give you a bountiful harvest, so even though this year you have been a lazy bogger, I will still give you a harvest for all the past years work’. No my friend, as long as the earth remains, seedtime and harvest will not cease. You sow you reap, you don’t sow you don’t reap, a very simple formula. Each season is a new slate and so it goes with relationship. We will have less trouble if we handle relationship in this manner. Relationships are organic, forever changing and we must be attentive and responsive. Do we then cut and paste, chuck and draw people nilly willy, no we don’t but we conduct relationship with awareness and a level of consciousness to the input and output. It is never a free ride. Each man has a due to pay in relationship.
If an evil person, repents of his evil ways and change, then also he must be given a chance. We can not forever penalise for sins that have already been attoned for. If they want you in their life and make the effort then we must consider on the basis of now, present behaviour, let the past be the past. Every man deserves a chance.
It’s a new day, a clean slate, live aware, what we sow today we reap, not a legacy reward.
Beautiful Ivory 