The Beam

A young girl balanced uncertainly on the end of the balance beam. Noticing her hesitance an instructor went to her aid.
"Honey, if you keep looking over your shoulder like that you'll fall."
The girl looked blankly at the instructor, then shifted her gaze to where her feet were planted. But the instructor shook her head and smiled saying, "You can't look at where you're standing either. If you're going to make it across this beam you've got to focus on where you're going. Keep your eyes focused on what's ahead rather than where you are and where you've been."
The young girl took in a deep breath and placed one foot in front of the other. She smiled, and progressed slowly down the beam. At one point her arms flailed out in the air when she lost her footing, but her instructor's gentle hands caught her before she could fall off. When she reached the end the instructor caught her up in a tight embrace.
"I knew you could do it," she laughed, "you just needed a little kick start huh."

That's how life is. If you focus on the present and the past and forget about the future, you're apt to fall and get hurt. But we have an instructor in life as well- and Christ's gentle hands will never let you fall. "You'll never get anywhere looking back, Love. You've got to keep looking forward."