Letting go of regrets about the past

September 7, 2016 | 21 comments

Are regrets weighing you down? If so, it’s time to let them go and live free.

Human life is a day by day opportunity to do right. If we mess up one day, a new day is coming right around the corner and affords a fresh opportunity to prove the good we’re capable of doing.

To succeed in the present, we must not let misgivings or grief over the past hold us back. We need to look up and out of any dark mental place to the infinite Love of God that is always present to maximize life’s opportunities.

With God, there are no missed opportunities. Only new opportunities to succeed.

With God, there are no closed doors. Only open doors to walk through now.

With God, there are no irreversible mistakes. Only right to act on now.

The simple truth is, God is the sum and substance of Life, and God is all good. You have a wholly good Life to live and enjoy. The human experience of life can get ugly and unpleasant at times, but it’s all temporal. It comes and goes and is ultimately replaced by spiritual reality.

So, don’t get mesmerized and stalled by the temporal. If it’s not good, it can get better. Focus on what is spiritually true now, live it, and leave the past behind. Improve!

Life is good all the time. You have permission to live that way.

21 thoughts on “Letting go of regrets about the past”

  1. I have had major skirmishes with myself for years (more about sins of omission rather than commission) and the following light is one I have found most enlightening and plausible.
    Hope it helps anyone who is struggling:

    https://christiansciencecomsuk.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/a-modern-rabbis-view-of-the-day-of-atonement-putting-the-past-behind-us/

    https://christiansciencecomsuk.workpress.com/2010/09/19/a-modern-rabbis-view-of-the-day-of-atonement-putting-the-past-behind-us/

  2. Yes yes yes! Evan, my mom and I often share the CS Daily Lift and I have always enjoyed your thoughts through that channel. She discovered your blog and shared it with me recently, and oh what a need it has met. Thank you. Your messages are “just right” and “just in time.” Life IS Good.

  3. Yes. Thank you.
    Mary Baker Eddy wrote, ” We live in an age of Love’s divine adventure to be All-in-all.”*
    That must include being right there in what humans call the past as well as their present and future.A study of Christian Science wakes us to the reality that nobody was ever there but God, the only Cause.

    We need to know this for world history, as well as our own, to heal world-wounds, as well as our own.

    * THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST AND MISCELLANY–p.158

  4. NICE REMINDER!

    Lately I have been struggling with thoughts from the past. Clarity in breaking away and healing the past. I needed this attention, thanks Evan.

  5. Thanks again for another perfect message for the day!

    I have worked a long time on letting go of the past. I spent many years, off and on, bogged down by claims of depression and PTSD. One breakthrough came from the Time4Thinkers blog “Forgiveness 40×4” (no longer available), when someone said after struggling with forgiveness, it finally came to her to just let go. Turn it over to God. Mortal Mind would try to argue that it’s not that simple, but it can be!

    I’m very grateful for all the support I found through CS that has helped me let go! After decades of counseling failed to bring about significant, lasting change, CS provided the knowledge that I am not bound by the past. I am free.

  6. Just so needed that.. And how..
    I feel peaceful after reading your spirit views Evan. Words cannot describe how greatful we are to be blessed by your beautiful views and teachings. All I can say now is a very heartfelt thank you.

  7. This was just so very helpful. I have been struggling with past regrets and memories and this brought such fresh inspiration and clarity to my thought. Thanks so muchcynthia

  8. In addition to the thought guides, Evan, you illustrate so clearly with your illustrations. Their images help ingrain the message. Thanks for this endeavor.

  9. Thanks Evan, what a wonderful thought to know we don’t have to hold on to regret. We all are involved in learning about our true selves. Letting go of the former perspectives and grasping on to the those perspectives that reinforce love, compassion, sharing without fear, patience carries us forward to the true substance of being, our true identity as an expression of God, Spirit, Soul.

  10. Thank You, Evan! And Thank You, Ellen Biemer! I, too, have struggled to leave behind depression and PTSD from the Past and have gone thru Therapy and other modalities. They all helped and led me on my path to Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy struggled for years with an illness and tried all kinds of therapies and each one led her to the next one……until the Light dawned and she discovered the Christianly Scientific method of Healing! Whatever we need to go through to get to where we are now – is all part of God’s plan for us and is just another step on the Path to Healing! It truly IS All Good! Much Love to All!

    1. It’s nice to know others have also found healing from similar issues!

      And I agree, the various therapies did help some – it was an evolutionary process for me too. Freedom can come in steps! I’m very grateful for the various people who helped me on my way, even those who threw medicine at me – some of the meds helped me along my way to true healing, by clearing my thought so I could pray; others had an opposite effect, which helped me see true healing doesn’t come in a pill!

  11. My, what a need this has met, dear Evan. “With God there are no closed doors. ”

    I shall look for those open doors waiting for me to walk through. How grateful I am to know they are right there, just waiting for me to eradicate negative thinking. it is time to know that Christ’s love leads me to that opening—right now.

  12. Thank you Evan- a most needed lift.
    As Bevi Sandpoint reminds us” it truly IS all good”. Spot on!
    Bless your heart Evan for this outreach as you can see we all
    Needed something like this.

  13. Evan, thank you, and God bless you again for sharing with others your valuable blogs. They have given true value to me, and I suspect, also, many other journey people.

  14. I will ad my peace and joy and gratitude
    to that which has already been expressed. Many thanks for new tho’ts for today.

  15. Thank you for this article. I also enjoyed “Forgive all the way.” Both blog posts were uplifting and helpful to me.

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