“You live life forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look in the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.” – Abraham Verghese
This quote craftily describes that sickening, sinking feeling that comes with the awareness (or the memory) of having made the wrong decision.
If I had only…is the plague and the gaping wound of our human condition that will not heal…unless…we grab the tourniquet of today, wrap it tightly around the bleeding past, and step with resolve into tomorrow.
I can only do that when I remember:
- It is no crime to be fallible.
- Redemption dwells in strange places.
- Power belongs to the present, and
- If I have been given breath, there is hope for tomorrow
(Initially posted in 2012. If you haven’t read the book, it is quite enlightening.)
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