The saying goes, I am not the same person you once knew. Well, I pondered on this today and decided to share what I learned in my recent experience. I am the same person , I only choose to live differently than I once lived. I made the decision to dedicate my life to Christ and even though my walk in follow ship has not always shown the right example, I still choose to be better. I feared for some time facing, revisiting, and returning to old places and people because I was afraid of my old ways. Today it dawned on me, the new lifestyle I choose each day is greater than the old ones. No matter what run ins I may encounter along my journey, I can still walk in the direction I have grown in and continue to evolve towards. There is no need to fear because you have the strength of God to be who you continue to grow into. The future says you are arriving, the present says you becoming, and the past says you are growing. You get to choose each day no matter who identified you as yesterday or even a second ago, you choose and keep growing forward. Evolving has many developments along the way by the transformation, process, and diversification.

“Evolution is a process of continuous branching and diversification from commontrunks. This pattern of irreversible separation gives life’s history its basic directionality.”— Stephen Jay Gould

My encouragement to you is not to fear any longer your past version rather choose to live your present working to becoming a future version.