Article November 3, 1997 Issue

Redeem the past and go forward

Robert W. Timm

In an episode of my favorite television show, Touched by an Angel, when a newer angel was regretting having done something one way instead of another, a question was put to her by a more senior angel.

The question: Do you know why God puts faces on the front of the body instead of on the back? The newer angel doesn't answer immediately, but later in the show she, says, "Faces are on the front so that people can see where they're going, not where they've been. We have to go forward, not backward." I like that concept—God means us to look forward!

Before coming back to the study of Christian Science, I spent a great deal of time looking back, regretting the person I was—living only for the day, self-centered, egotistical, not a very nice guy. I wasn't exactly the type of person who should have been married and the daddy of a wonderful little girl. The result was a divorce and limited visitation with my daughter.

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