"Y" Is For Yesterday

                Yesterday

Don’t go playing in the street;

Wash your hands and wipe your feet.

Eat your veggies – clean your plate

Let me kiss that little face—

          Sometimes I miss my yesterdays.

The kids at play in dusky light,

Chasing, catching fireflies.

Teeth are brushed, prayers are said,

Then I tuck them into bed.

          Sometimes I miss my yesterdays.

To the bus stop—here’s your lunch;

Please tell me your homework’s done.

Before you walk out of my sight

You turn around and wave “goodbye.”

          Sometimes I miss my yesterdays.

Rides to church, and “zip to keep,”

Clyde the goat, jokes from back seat;

Ice cream on the long drive home,

Laughing much and having fun.

          Sometimes I miss my yesterdays.

Maybe you’re a mom or dad who has painful memories of your children; you wish you would have done things differently.  You can’t change the past—just the present and future.  Good memories are precious, but you can’t live in the past or grieve over mistakes you’ve made in relationships with your children.  Ask God’s forgiveness, and go to your children if possible and ask their forgiveness, too.  With a humble heart, ask God to heal the relationships with your children.  You can and must move ahead.  Staying stuck in the pigpen of regrets won’t do anybody any good.  Jesus pulls you out of the pit!

I think of the words in Scripture, Philippians 3:12-14 (NIV) “… I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me…forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

God bless you, dear reader!

Copyright © 2013 Elaine Beachy