by Zeke Flores<\/p>\n
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Cheesy, maybe-but true.<\/p>\n
Yesterday is fixed, and no amount of regret can rewrite it. I may not be able to undo my past mistakes, but I can seek forgiveness, make amends where possible, and learn from them. God isn’t finished with me yet, and His mercies are new every morning.<\/p>\n
I can’t fix yesterday, but I can choose to do my best today. Every sunrise is a fresh invitation to walk more closely with Christ, to love more sincerely, to live more faithfully.<\/p>\n
As Paul reminds us: “forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead<\/em>” (Philippians 3:13).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by Zeke Flores “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” Cheesy, maybe-but true. Yesterday is fixed, and no amount of regret can rewrite it. I may not be able to undo my past mistakes, but I can seek forgiveness, make amends where possible, and learn from them. God isn’t finished with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[1813,1495],"class_list":["post-90807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-optimism","tag-regrets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":92295,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/straight-ahead-lies-yesterday\/","url_meta":{"origin":90807,"position":0},"title":"Straight Ahead Lies Yesterday","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by R. L. Craig via\u00a0The Expository Review, January 1982 The title above is a book written several years ago by Harry Rimmer. As I remember (I first saw the book in 1945), Rimmer's theme was that almost everything repeats itself. Indeed, this has been the truth concerning nations. Look at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Article"","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":36535,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/rock-star\/","url_meta":{"origin":90807,"position":1},"title":"Rock Star","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 10, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"by Zeke Flores When I was a late teenager I had dreams of becoming a rough and rowdy rock star. I'd hit it big then flame out like the shooting star in Bad Company's song \"Shooting Star.\" I hated the thought of waking up in mid-life wondering what I did\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Article"","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rock-music-300x200.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":68632,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/on-the-first-day-of-the-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":90807,"position":2},"title":"On the First Day of the Week","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 2, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"by Terry Wane Benton Acts 20:7 lets us know when the disciples of Jesus came together to break bread. It was the first day of the week. Paul had been there almost a week waiting to get with the brethren. On the first day of the week, the disciples came\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Article"","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":93655,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/every-day-is-a-new-opportunity-to-fight-the-devil\/","url_meta":{"origin":90807,"position":3},"title":"Every Day Is a New Opportunity to Fight the Devil","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 3, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"by Gary Henry via WordPoints.com \"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world\" (I Peter 5:8-9). In the New\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Article"","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dawn-300x200.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":18515,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/where-does-it-say-that-a-man-cant-be-with-his-wife-during-her-monthly-periods\/","url_meta":{"origin":90807,"position":4},"title":"Where does it say that a man can’t be with his wife during her monthly periods?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Where in the Bible does it talk about a woman's monthly cycle and that a man should not be with her while she is on her monthly?\u00a0 My man and I were having a Bible discussion yesterday and he said he read something about that in the Bible but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13877,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/my-daughter-lies-but-eventually-tells-the-truth-under-pressure\/","url_meta":{"origin":90807,"position":5},"title":"My daughter lies but eventually tells the truth under pressure","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"October 24, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: If a child lies about something but eventually tells the truth under pressure, should she be punished for not telling the truth in the first place, or will that just encourage her to persist in the lie the next time?\u00a0 It seems to me we should be teaching them\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Parenting"","block_context":{"text":"Parenting","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/parenting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}