Day 99 How far did you turn back the clock?

The “time change” is never a welcome event in our household, because suddenly it is DARK way too early.  It always takes me by surprise, like my afternoon ran out of daylight.

But this morning as I awoke, realizing that the time on my watch was not the “real” time, I thought about turning back the clock.  How far back do you want to turn it?  Back to high school?  College?  Five years ago?   Even ten years ago, I would never have even thought about running a marathon.  “I could never do that,” I remember telling people.  Indeed, at the time, I could barely make it to the end of my block without having to walk.  Sometimes we are surprised by looking back. 

And sometimes it fills us with regret for how we would have done things differently.  But this I do know, we cannot dwell there.  We can’t turn back the clock in life, but we can live the days ahead with a different heart.

…but one thing I do,

forgetting what lies behind

and straining forward to what lies ahead.

I press on toward the goal for the prize

of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

                     Philippians 3. 13-14