refrigerator magnet

I was reading a devotional last week named "Hope for the Holidays" It was about labeling ourselves by our past mistakes. It also was about salvation. How because of God's forgiveness and His erasing our past mistakes our slate is clean. And because He forgave us. we should forgive ourselves. And no longer label ourselves by the past.
But, for me as I read this all that really stood out was the labeling. I don't know for how long I'd considered myself to be a failure, unfit parent, unfaithful wife. I look at my past and say, "wish I'd never did that. I such an idiot for having said that." And I began wondering about the people I see everyday at the bank. How many of them consider themselves not to be worthy or unloveable? Maybe they needed to be treated special that day because they didn't feel special.
I also read something else around this time: Remember this, if God had a refrigerator, He'd have your picture on it.
As for my labeling of myself, God's still working on me. Using statements like the latter to remind me of how much He loves me. Showing me that my "slate is clean" That the past is just that, the past. I can't change it. I just need to move on. And to remember that if God had a refrigerator my picture would be on it.
As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Psalms 103:12