Running over the past darkness and garbage...

While I've been out running along Ashley City Hwy the past several months I notice something quite grand. I end up seeing the garbage of my past in the gutter, the gutter where I used to be and how I used to live. With each step on the run, I step over needles, prescription bottles, cigs, tobacco cans, the booze bottles, broken glass and just plain old trash. I'm empowered as I run past these things every day. They symbolize the darkness in my past with regards to addiction, divorce, bad choices, etc. Now I can smile when I see these things knowing God has restored me, I can look up and then I see the trees and the green that are reaching for the heavens everyday. They reach up for the Son. I want to be like them always reaching for the Son. I want to be as close as possible to Christ Jesus and as much like him.