Welcome to today's encouragement from our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled Doing Something Right was written by Tim Gustafson.

The letter from Jason an inmate surprised my wife and me.

We foster puppies to become service dogs to assist people with disabilities.

One such puppy had graduated to the next training phase, which was run by prisoners who

have been taught how to train the dogs.

Jason's letter to us expressed sorrow for his past, but then he said, Snickers is the

17th dog I've trained, and she is the best one. When I see her looking up at me, I feel like I'm

finally doing something right. Jason isn't the only one with regrets. We all have them. Manasseh,

King of Judah, had plenty. Second Chronicles 33, outlined some of his atrocities, building

sexually explicit altars to pagan gods, practicing witchcraft and sacrificing his own children. He led the entire nation

down this sordid path. The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.

Eventually, God got his attention. The Assyrians invaded, put a hook in his nose and took him to Babylon.

Next, Manasseh finally did something right. He sought the favor of the Lord his God and humbled

himself greatly. God heard him and restored him as king. Manasseh replaced the pagan practices with worship of the one true God.

Do your regrets threaten to consume you?

It's not too late.

God hears our humble prayer of repentance.

Today's our daily breadbred devotional scripture reading is from Second Chronicles chapter 33 verses 10 through 16.

The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.

So the Lord brought against them the army commanders of

the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh prisoner, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles,

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