Do You Need a Time Machine?
If you read about my dreaded phone call I’m happy to tell
you that little Griffin is fine now.
Thank you for all of your prayers and concern.
When Will and Molly returned home from school the afternoon
that it happened, they couldn’t believe all that they had missed in the eight
hours that they had been gone. The accident, the paramedics, the emergency
rooms, the tests, and the release from the hospital all happened in such a
short period.
Although they had been told that their baby brother was
going to be all right, Will was struck with compassion, since he too has made
several trips to the emergency room and hates pain. In his seven year old mind,
he spouted out his solution, “I wish I had a time machine so that I could turn
back the time and rescue Griffin before he fell.”
We have probably all felt that way at one time or another.
Maybe it involved an accident, but it may also have been something not so life
threatening like a hurtful action or stinging words that you wish you could
take back. Most of the time those things happen before we stop to think and
later we wish that we had never said or done them.
But the reality is that we don’t have a time machine and we
can’t go back and rewind the scene and relive it. Our words and actions are
like toothpaste that has been squeezed out of the tube, you can’t make it go
back in the way that it was before.
So it seems that the lesson here is that we should stop and
think before we act or speak then we wouldn’t have so many regrets, apologies
and hurt feelings. Don’t count on a time machine to save you, because the
responsibility is yours to allow God to change your heart, so that what flows
out is pleasing, uplifting, encouraging.
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of
this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become
angry. James 1:19
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