Growing Together in Grace and Knowledge

  3 Practices for Breaking the Habit  of Looking Back How many of you struggle with the habit of hindsight?  Do you have a conversation with someone and then replay it back hours later and think about what you could’ve said or should’ve said?  Or maybe you struggle with shame about things that you’ve done in the past which rears its ugly head when you receive a compliment about your character and you think, “Well if you only knew what I’ve done…”  You might struggle with spiraling when a besetting sin comes to bother you and think, “What’s the use of even trying to do better.  I’m just going to mess up anyway, I always do…”  This inner dialogue truly can destroy a person.  It keeps them in a shame cycle of focusing on the past and basically living there. If you’re like me, you struggle with looking back in a different sense.  It’s not necessarily looking back at negative things in your life, but happier times, times when life was good and eve...