No Regrets
Kinda a strange title for my post, but then again it does fit. This past weekend I was with one of my dear friends on her houseboat. I had so much fun..although I am a bit sunburned and very sore. I learned how to water ski, went tubing(which by the way, is the funnest thing!), and conquered one of my fears-jumping off high places into water. I am a chicken..you are lucky to get me off a diving board. So when they said we were going to the cliffs I about freaked out. What was I going to do! We got there and they didn’t look that high..until you climb up and are standing on the edge of a rock cliff 30 feet above the water. Yea..talk about scary. But I did it..I jumped in! It wasn’t that bad afterall. And I lived my time on the houseboat with no regrets.
As I was coming home, I was pondering the last few months. I have done some things totally out of my character and very crazy. Yet, I have also had very few regrets. I thought about the times in my life I regret and a lot of the time it was because I didn’t seize an opportunity. I didn’t do something because I was scared. So I am going to work on not letting my fears get in the way. Yeah, people may think I’m weird or that I am a dork. But why should I let that stop me. Phil.3:14 says, “I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” I truly want this to be the theme of my life. Not living in the past, in the regrets, but rather following what the previous verse says, “..Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.”(Phil. 3:13) I want to live a life with no regrets. I don’t want to come to the end of my high school career and realize that I lost a lot of valuable time with my Lord because I was too focused on the past. I have been given here and now. Today-not yesterday and not tomorrow-but right now. And I want to live out today in view of eternity. Yes, the future is going to be great and I can’t wait for college. But I still have time, and I want to finish up my time in high school with no regrets.
