If you could go back in time and give your younger self advice, what would it be?
This question is old wine in a new bottle. In the past two months, WordPress posed three questions to its bloggers: “What’s one thing you wish you had started doing earlier in life?” “If you could relive one year of your life, which one would it be?” “If you could relive one day from the past, which one would you choose?” All three assumed the bloggers had a regrettable history and a dire need to rewrite it.
I think I’ve said enough on the subject. So my answer today is straightforward: I don’t wish to go back in time and give my younger self advice, because my growth in life comes through trial and error—and advice from the future would short-circuit the very process that formed me. My growth in Christ is towards not perfection but blamelessness.
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