You have a choice. Take hold of your future or the past will take it for you.
~ Pepper D. Basham
Each time you allow the past to hold your future, [he] steals more and more from you.
The countryside stretched green and alive from her perch on the hill....She breathed in the air of a free woman and marveled at how her clarity of spirit even seemed to affect her vision. Brighter colors. Fresher air.