No do-overs

Yesterday (Sunday Aug. 24), we had a breakfast taco brunch in our adult learning class. I put a few questions up on the white board for those around the table to answer if they ran out of conversation. The last question asked, "What would you "do-over" in your life if you could?" I thought-provoking question, I thought. Well, the people around the table where I sat at did not like the question at all. They argued that if they were able to change something back in their lives, it would change everything. One person put it succinctly. She said she would not be in a (good) place now if she had not gone through the difficult time in the recent past. She would not have learned what she now uses in her life, her career! She is absolutely right.

What we go through in life affects us in ways we could not have learned otherwise. God uses all that we experience for good, equipping us to help and encourage others.