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If you could go back and start your life over....

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If you could go back and start your life over would you?What age would you go back to?
 
Yeah, I've thought a lot of times I'd like to go back, but take the wisdom and knowledge gained over time with me. For me it would be around 18 or 19. That's when I had firmly established myself as a Christian and already was established in my first ministry. However I wish I'd had more knowledge and wisdom to avoid some pitfalls that I eventually fell into. There are important things I would do differently.
 
There is no way I would relive it if I couldn't go back with the knowledge I have now.
 
19.
It was at that age that I started to develop schizophrenia, and the time when I began to rebel.
I was such an idiot.
 
Maybe I'd go back into my teen years and focus more on hard work and learning how to get a job. (Which I didn't research until more recently.) But then, maybe not. Those years were awkward and I was so immature. I don't quite regret my teen years, but I don't want to relive that.
 
I'd go back only seven months, to the beginning of December last year when I first met someone... before I screwed it all up. :-(
 
I'd return to age 25, when I completed my service in the navy, returned home to New York, and met the woman who became my wife. We've lived a good and happy life loving each other and raising our two kids. I wouldn't want to change much of what we've lived, I'd just like to live it again.
 
There are only two things in my life I would want to do over. The first was when I visited my great aunt in the hospital with my dad when I was 26. As we were leaving, I got a strong feeling I should talk to her about God, but I didn't. Instead I left with my dad. That was the last time I saw her alive. The second thing I would want to do over was last summer when my mom died. I wish I had talked to her about God also.

Many people wish they could go back and change all the bad things in their lives and make different decisions that ended badly, and I used to think the same way. But one time when I was thinking along those lines, I realized that those bad things that happened to me were what made me who I am today, just as much as the good things. God allowed those bad things to happen to mold me into the person He wants me to be. I don't want to be anyone different from that.

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