Regrets? I've Had a Few.

When I was a kid, my older brother rolled one of those giant wooden cable spools to the top of our dead-end street. His big idea? Someone would stand on top and “walk” it down the road—running backwards to keep from falling off.

At first, it looked like it might actually work. But then the wheel started picking up speed. Before long, my neighbor—who was a year older and therefore the expert—went flying. Broken arm. Parents came running.

That night, every mom and dad in the neighborhood held their own private interrogation session. “What on earth made you think this was a good idea?” I remember sitting there thinking, Yeah, now that you mention it… that was pretty dumb.

In fact, it was so obviously dumb in hindsight that I wished I could go back in time, grab my 10-year-old self by the shoulders, and say, “Hey, maybe let’s not participate in the human hamster wheel of doom.”

The truth is, whether you’re in fourth grade or four years from retirement, we all have moments like that. Decisions we look back on and think, If I knew then what I know now, I’d do it differently. We wish we could go back and have a do-over. Well, the surprising news is that God does give us a way to travel back in time and change the past. All we have to do is…wait, that’s not right. There is no “Back to the Future,” verse. Unfortunately, the Bible doesn’t give us a secret formula to reverse time. None of us can change the past.

But here’s the good news: while we can’t go back, we can make sure we don’t repeat the same mistakes. We can learn. We can adjust. We can move forward with fewer regrets.

Over the next four weeks, we’re going to talk about how to do exactly that. We’ll look at the wisdom of Proverbs—not as a dusty collection of old sayings, but as a God-given guide to making better decisions starting now. So join us this weekend as we kick off: “No Regrets: You Can’t Change the past, but you can avoid repeating it.”

Grace & Peace,

Nathan Lawson