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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"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. 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