Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the

word, prayers, in our heart. I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me,

which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. We're finishing up our week of inspiration

today. Don't worry, we have a show tomorrow, but it's the fun Friday five. And today I want to

talk about something if I'm not

careful, I have a pile of. In fact, I can go down a road and before I know it, I've started

doing this in such an unhealthy way. I lose time. I get in a very bad mood. Take it out of my

family and even more serious. You can get into almost a spiral of depression. I want to get

into it because I think you'll

relate. So let's take a quick pause and come right back.

Regrets. That's what we're talking about on the show today. And I suspect you struggle with

this sometimes too. Man, there's not much that robs our joy more than living, looking in the

rear view mirror with a life of regret, right? When I'm in a place of regret, I just feel heavy.

It's like I said in the intro, I can lose time going back in my history, dredging up all of it,

and I can become so engrossed in my regret that I miss time with my family or take out my angst

over something I'm thinking about and regret with them. Sometimes my regret can cause me to spiral.

I feel embarrassed over something I've done or wish I'd done this or hadn't acted this way

or whatever the case may be. And it's all just so unhealthy. I think moms deal with a lot of regrets,

if we're honest. As the kids get older, you see things you wish you'd done differently, or what

if I'd done that? Maybe they wouldn't struggle in this way. Maybe they'd be a different person,

or maybe they wouldn't have gone down this road. I know and can remember, even when my oldest was a

baby, I felt regret almost from the

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