Why do I keep making the same mistake over and over again?

You told yourself this time would be different. Same habit, same pattern, same Tuesday morning where you are back at square one and wondering what is wrong with you. Nothing is wrong with you. But something is weighing you down. You have been carrying it so long it feels like yours, like part of who you are. It is not. Listen to what God says into this:

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us."

- Hebrews 12:1 (KJV)

Pick one thing you keep going back to, one habit or pattern you have tried to break before. Write its name on a piece of paper today. Just the name. Then put the paper somewhere you will see it at 18:00 tonight, and ask yourself honestly: what am I getting from holding onto this?

What would your day look like if you put down the one thing you keep picking back up?

God, I am tired of the same circle. Help me see what I am holding onto and why. Give me the courage to put it down and not pick it up again. Amen.