We all have regrets. Things with our job we would love to
redo, or words we wish were never said. Things get busy during this time of
year and it is very easy for all of us to miss the important things - the
things that really matter. Just a quick reminder for you and me as we move
through this holiday season…
Hope this blesses you as it did me.
After writing yesterday’s post on God’s “regret” and then reading R.C. Sproul Jr. write
poignantly about how he regrets not holding his
wife’s hand more, I got to thinking about all the things we are likely not to
regret when we get to the end of our days.
We won’t regret playing hide and seek
with our children.
We won’t regret turning off the t.v.
and putting the phone away.
We won’t regret that one night (or
week, or even season of life) we let the kids get happy meals just so they
would be happy and we could survive.
We won’t regret singing the same
hymns over and over until they became familiar enough to sing with the saints
around a hospital bed.
We won’t regret the time we spent
hiding the word in our hearts.
We won’t regret jumping in a pile of
leaves every fall.
We won’t regret overlooking a lot of
little things that bother us about our spouses.
We won’t regret kissing our spouse in
front of the kids.
We won’t regret going to bed with a
messy house if that meant we had time to chase the kids around in the backyard.
We won’t regret all the wasted time
with friends.
We won’t regret laughing often and
laughing loudly.
We won’t regret hugging our kids
whenever they’ll let us.
We won’t regret the times the kids
slept in our beds and the times in the middle of the night we had to carry them
softly back to theirs.
We won’t regret being a little bit
goofy.
We won’t regret asking for
forgiveness, and we won’t regret forgiving those who ask.
We won’t regret dancing at
weddings–fast and silly with our kids, slow and sweet with our spouse.
We won’t regret giving most people
the benefit of the doubt.
We won’t regret commiting to a good
church and sticking around.
We won’t regret learning to play the
piano, read music, or sing in parts.
We won’t regret reading to our
children.
We won’t regret time spent in prayer.
We won’t regret going on long road
trips filled with frustrations, but full with memories.
We won’t regret letting our kids be
kids.
We won’t regret walking with people
through suffering.
We won’t regret trusting Jesus.
