When You Can't Fix It

If we are traveling along a road using a map to find our way and we make a wrong turn, we can blame the person who made the map, even if the map is correct in its making. The map may indeed be wrong, but the fact remains we must fix our mistake and get back on the right path. If we spend all our time blaming the mapmaker for our wrong turn and we spend no time getting back on the right path, we never reach our destination. We cannot change what we did yesterday. We cannot change the history each of us creates every day. All of us make mistakes. Not one of us who walks the earth is a perfect person. It is when we begin to understand we all make mistakes we can begin to address what we have done in the past and also address what others have done to us. When we begin to understand we all make mistakes, we can then begin to forgive others and forgive ourselves. Too often and in too many ways we let ourselves make excuses about why we have made the mistakes we have made. Too often and in too many ways we tell ourselves or others our mistakes are caused by others or caused by circumstances beyond our control. However, if we make excuses when we have not fixed or tried to fix our mistakes. Although we cannot change the events we create every day after the day is over, we can always change what we will do tomorrow. Although we cannot change history, we can apologize to all the people we have hurt in the past. We can all try to make amends with others without making any excuses. Although we cannot change our history, we can change the effects of the history we create by never repeating the mistakes we have made in the past.

Psalm 32:5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.