March 29, 2023

Here’s some good news for those of us with regrets, which is all of us. (Never trust anyone who says he or she has “no regrets”.) First from Shakespeare: “What’s past is prologue.”

And here is the Bible. Remember what Joseph said to his brothers, long after they sold him into slavery and left him for dead? “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.” (Genesis 50:20)

What has happened already is just the beginning of the story that God will bring to redemption. What’s past is prologue.

“O God, who wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored, the dignity of human nature: Grant that we may share the divine life of him who humbled himself to share our humanity, your Son Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Second Sunday after Christmas – BCP)