It’s amusing, the expression we use, \u201csending our regrets.\u201d Or at least it was in vogue when manners were. It was the polite way to turn down an invitation or an \u201cRSVP\u201d (another politeness, mostly gone).<\/p>\n
But regrets can loom much larger in our lives than small infelicities. They can grow into mind monsters that won’t stop shouting and, if allowed, crowd out everything else.<\/p>\n
Thanks to God, there is solution. Ultimate. And satisfying.<\/p>\n
But still, we have our histories. And there are parts we’d just as soon weren’t there. These are in areas of what we’ve done and rather we hadn’t<\/em>, and what we’ve not done and rather we had<\/em>.<\/p>\n It’s the \u201ccommission\u201d<\/strong> and \u201comission\u201d<\/strong> thing.<\/p>\n Take wife Anne, the purer spirit between us; her sensitivities are more in the latter category. Mine are more obvious, more protruding\u2014like icebergs still apparent on a cold sea where I don’t want to return.<\/p>\n The difference is, while mine are numerous, they’re numerable<\/em>. The list of omissions, however, can tend to be infinite<\/em>.<\/p>\n Sometimes I’ve thought it’s a female thing\u2014part of the race that can only be happy if feeling guilty.<\/p>\n Of course, I jest.<\/p>\n And digress.<\/p>\n As I said above, there is solution. Without it we’d never get out of our wallowing. With it, we can acknowledge the facts . . . that we’ve too often done what we shouldn’t, and too often not done what we should.<\/p>\n Either way, by God’s grace our regrets can be sealed up and sent to the outer abyss.<\/p>\n As for heaven’s invitation, best not to neglect it. Best to RSVP with, \u201cWouldn’t miss it for the world.”<\/p>\n No regrets.<\/p>\n __________<\/p>\n PS: For anyone interested, or in the area, I’ll be speaking this Sunday at Heritage Christian Fellowship in San Clemente, 9:00 o’clock service.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Regrets, a bottomless wastebasket that can haunt . . . if there wasn’t a Janitor. Which there is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7223"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10696,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions\/10696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}