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Living With Regret

Posted: January 6, 2011 in life, religion
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How many times have you heard someone say “I’ll regret that for the rest if my life”?

I’m sure that each one of us have done things we’re not proud of, said something we shouldn’t have or not said something when we should have.

Do not brood over your past mistakes or failures as this will fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

- Swami Sivananda

Whatever events or situations we regret, we must not let them take over our present or indeed our future, after all whatever our regrets, they are about something in the past. i.e. Something which cannot be changed – Yes, we can take action to improve the current situation caused by the event, but we can never change the actual event itself because it is in the past.

So what should we do? Move on, accept our mistakes, learn from them, but most of all leave them in our past. After all I’m sure that’s what others would want us to do with any hurt they may previously have caused us too!

And how do we move on? As I said in yesterday’s blog post, No Regrets, by giving your life to Jesus – give Him all your problems, all your burdens, both past and present. By doing this God can help you turn your life around, so that you can live your life to the full, without regrets.

1 Peter 5:7 (Amplified Bible)

Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.

Forgiven

Posted: September 6, 2009 in religion
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Phillipians 4:8-9 (The Message)
Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies.

Do you find yourself dwelling in the past and what might have been?
I think we’re all guilty of that at times. We tend to forget that it’s called “the past” for a reason – it’s happened, it’s over and we can’t change any of it. We find ourselves dwelling on things that we feel we have failed at, situations that we which we’d handled differently, or conversations we wish we’d said (or not said) something.

Before we know where we are, we find ourselves focusing in on our failures. Instead of leaving these events in the past and moving on. Just because we’ve failed at something in the past doesn’t mean we will continue to fail – After all they always say, “Practice makes perfect”!

If we let our past failures consume our thoughts and control our emotions we will continue to be a prisoner of our past. God needs/wants us to let go of our past failures, and in doing experience a joy which can only be found through Him.

God is willing to forgive us of all our wrongs, so surely we should be able to forgive ourselves?

Don’t live in regret as it will change nothing for the better and will only cause you more pain.

Forgive yourself and move on!
Live in the present not the past, and live it in Jesus’ name!