Did you know that when a broken bone heals, it’s stronger than it was before it was broken?

In one’s determination to solve inherent problems, regretful decisions are sometimes made.  Decisions and choices are a way of life, and occasionally they do not provide the level of reward an individual set out to achieve.  Bad decisions can be a schoolmaster or an undertaker. Past mistakes can be viewed as indicators of personal inability and inadequacy, or they can be viewed as situations that did not produce acceptable results.  These situations need adjustment so problems are solved, producing results that are pleasurable and acceptable.  Living under the tyranny of past decisions is a cruel taskmaster.  One’s vision for the future is far more important to a fulfilled life in the present than the memory of what happened in the past.

HELPFUL AFFIRMATIONS

1.  “Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.” (James Thurber)

2.  “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?  I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.”  (Isaiah 43:18)

3.  “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”  (Napoleon Hill)

4.  “Live each day where you’ll never be afraid of tomorrow or ashamed of yesterday.” (Unknown)

5.  “In the carriages of the past you can’t go anywhere.”  (Maxim Gorky)

6.  “The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor that hinders you.  Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith.”  (Warren Wiersbe)

7.  “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.  Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.”  (Katherine Mansfield)

8.  “Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.”  (Chinese Proverb)

Source:  FORGIVENESS: Mistakes Are Now History (Dr. Raymond E. Meadors)

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