REgret is the enemy of a new season

​Seasons are the pattern of life.

Winter, spring, summer and fall.

Days of the week.

Even the hours of the day are new seasons.

With each of these predictable season changes comes a chance to be born again. To find new life. Yet - many of us don't find it. We don't because we insist on bringing the debris of seasons gone by with us.

Much of that debris comes in the form of regrets. We start each new season beating ourselves up for things we did or didn't do last season. We start each new season listening to the haunting voice of missed opportunities. We repeat this over and over until new seasons don't look so new at all.

They look like the seasons of our past.

They look like regrets.

The hope found in a new season is that it will ALWAYS look like something you have never seen before. It will always offer the chance to add new life to your life.

The life-sucking power of regret is it will ALWAYS look the same. It will always look like something you did or didn't do. It will always look like a wish. No matter how far removed you get from a regret, when you revisit it, it will always make you feel the same.

It will always make new feel like old.

Regrets are clingy. They hate to see us leave. They grab hold of your ankle and hold on for dear life as you try to step into your new season.

But a new season comes with a cape - a superpower if we choose to put it on. In our cape, we can look behind us and see regret slowly losing its grip and fading into the darkness of seasons gone by.

No more regret.

And we march on. Into new seasons. Into new life.