Week 534–Wisdom from the Abbey–Mother Hilda–It Might Have Been

Wisdom from the Abbey–Mother Hilda–It Might Have Been (Mother Hilda says that often we can find that there is much in our lives to regret. Mistakes, sins, times when we've let the side down, and the constant companion that is our own weakness. Mother Hilda’s grandmother used to recite a poem for her called: It might have been. We too can look at our own life and wish that it had been other than it is, we could eternally linger in the land of: It might have been. However, all these regrets are crying out for the God who can heal them. This is the same God who keeps vigil with me as I refuse to own my own life. Or rather own it as I want to be, not as it really is. This is the God who desperately wants admittance to our locked rooms to give us the joy of living freely and unimpeded by the perceived blackness of our past. Take our courage in our hand, face the pain of memories, put the kettle on, and let Jesus tell us the story over and over again of his love for us. Let's not go on living with regrets of the past. Let's not keep saying it might have been.)