What a terrible word regrets is.  It is made up of dwelling in the past, of reliving all our failures and roads not taken.  Things which could have been but yet didn’t happen. What’s the point of wallowing in self loathing, pity and sinking into depression over what could have been?

The past is gone over the waterfall and the river of life lays on up ahead it’s the way into the mountain of God.   Reliving the regrets only takes us into dark caves and the deep words of despair.  Regrets are the enemy’s tools to stop our progress on our journey.   They are the briars and brambles which hold us back.  Digging in painfully as they remind us of failures and things left undone.  We must leave those memories in the rearview mirror and refuse to keep revisiting them in the land of regrets.  It’s a terrible dark valley to be trapped in.   Our path is up the river to Yahweh, who is the true source of everything good and pleasant. 

Paul spoke of our goal, eternity in Jesus:

”Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.“

Philippians 3:12-14 ESV

Photo: Our son Micah would have been 29 today, we miss him so much!