Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Tanya Wilmoth. Today's episode is about finding peace on the other

side of regret. We're going to look at a passage in numbers where God helps his people

with this but I'm going to start off by sharing a couple of personal stories with you.

The first one dates all the way back to college, and it stems from a time when I made a big life decision that kind of changed my course academically and professionally

and then really shaped the rest of my adult life. It's a decision that I wouldn't necessarily change if given the opportunity, but it's also one where I find myself sometimes wondering how my life would look different if I had chosen differently.

Those moments of regret pop up when I face new situations and meet new people

and go through transitions like when my kids went to school. Regret can sound like asking, how would my life be better if I would

have chosen differently? It can come in many forms, wishing we had spent time differently,

wanting to take back something we said

that we shouldn't have, not speaking up

when we could have helped someone.

Another experience I have with regret touches me much more deeply. The last time I saw my dad was January 5th, 2018. I took him to an appointment that day to have a port put in for chemot treatment.

Even though he was feeling really awful, we went to Arby's for lunch. It was one of his favorites. And it made me feel better to see him try to eat a sandwich.

We also drove by a jewelry designer to drop off his wedding band. He hadn't worn it since before I was born and it had a big chunk out of it

where the doctors cut it off after his finger was severed in a piece of machinery. But it was important to him again,

so we dropped it off to have it repaired. I took mom and dad

back to their house and went to the grocery store to stock them up with food and snacks to eat

during the next week of chemot treatments, and I kiss them goodbye kind of in a hurry to make it to an eighth grade basketball game which seemed really important at the time.

I promised to be back the next weekend.

The next Friday my sister called and said they were taking dad to the hospital because

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