Are you leaving 2015 in a few days with no regrets? Oh, trust me, I have regrets from 2015: I messed up. I sinned. I got angry. I was selfish. I was proud. I was impatient. I was…a whole list of things. And I regret that. But I’m moving forward into 2016. By God’s grace and with His help, I’m turning my open hands heavenward and asking Him to fill them, to teach me, to change me, to prepare me, and to create in me more possibilities for growth, accomplishment, outreach, and love than I would have thought possible—all because of the lessons learned from those regrets. But because of His amazing grace, I’m not taking them with me!

“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:12–14, NIV).