I\u2019m reading through 40 Days of Decrease this lent, fasting something new each day. Today\u2019s fast is regret. The author Alicia Britt Chole writes,\u00a0\u201cWhen fresh beginnings are stalked by the memories of stale endings, a sickly substance can steal our strength: regret. Regret empties anticipation, flattens dreams, and suffocates hope, because regret is a form of self-punishment. So for one entire day, I invite you to fast regret. Do not feed it. Do not give it space. Let it go: God\u2019s mercies are\u00a0\u201cnew every morning\u201d (Lamentations 3:23). And meditate on Jesus\u2019 glorious promise from Revelation 21:5,\u00a0\u201cI am making everything new!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m reading through 40 Days of Decrease this lent, fasting something new each day. Today\u2019s fast is regret. The author Alicia Britt Chole writes,\u00a0\u201cWhen fresh beginnings are stalked by the memories of stale endings, a sickly substance can steal our strength: regret. Regret empties anticipation, flattens dreams, and suffocates hope,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,1],"tags":[28,3,30],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-spiritual-life","category-uncategorized","tag-joy","tag-lent","tag-regret"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7nB6O-C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}