I was reading an article on Mockingbird that is an interaction with an online article about regret and parenting failures.
One phrase quoted from the original article has been drifting in and out of my mind all day “My task now is to give up all hope of a better past because time is relentless,…”
The temptation of locking ourselves into ongoing regret for past failures that stymies present and future positive change and growth is powerful. Yet it is poisonous. We can’t ignore the failings of the past, but they are past.
While the original article seems to take comfort in the ubiquity of failure, the Mockingbird post holds out a more liberating hope in the power of the Gospel.
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