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Yahweh_is_gracious
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1. Take the opportunity to live with my grandparents when offered. Would have been better than listenign to my parents scream at each other constantly.
2. Tell the Marine Corps recruiter "no thanks".
3. Never have sex. Ever. Not worth it.
4. Never pick up that first cigarette.
5. Never get a tattoo.
6. Take better care of my teeth. Stated otherwise - quit being such a wimp about dentists.
7. Go to trade school instead of college. I might have had a career. As it is now, I have an education and no skills.
8. Buy that car I had the cash for when I was 15.
2. Tell the Marine Corps recruiter "no thanks".
3. Never have sex. Ever. Not worth it.
4. Never pick up that first cigarette.
5. Never get a tattoo.
6. Take better care of my teeth. Stated otherwise - quit being such a wimp about dentists.
7. Go to trade school instead of college. I might have had a career. As it is now, I have an education and no skills.
8. Buy that car I had the cash for when I was 15.
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Stewart
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this may be a non-answer, but I would say nothing. For better or worse everything in my past, the good and the bad, has led me to where I am today, and who I am today, and I wouldn't change that for anything. God's ways are above my ways, though I may not understand why everything happened the way they did, I know it was His will, and I find comfort in that
Yes that is also true too!
yet there are something's I wish I hadn't done ie certain relationship/decisions I made which there has been a negative consequence and there was a time when I lived with regret/disappointment regarding these things.
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Stewart
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Stewart
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I can definatley relate to the issue of taking better care of ones teeth as I have lost about 6 teeth due to sugar!!
"but I still got my smile!"
Interesting though, if all these things were changed what would of been the outcome of your life in certain areas ?
I would change a few things I would have never stayed with my youngest daughters father now husband thats for sure. I also would have never trusted my mother and her family.... But i also want to add that even the bad things that happened in our lives can turn out to be good. Because we learn from our mistakes or at least most people do....
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Stewart
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Hi yes you're right.
It we could go back in time to change certain things it would just be like the movie back to the future.(a lot of running around trying to avoid certain things from happening)
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Yahweh_is_gracious
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I don't know, but I have to think that my life would have turned out differently and I wouldn't now be plagued with the emotional and physical scars I carry with me.
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Huckleberry
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I really couldn't change it then, but my desire would be that Jesus
had called me unto Him sooner, but that is just my personal desire,
and obviously not His...
had called me unto Him sooner, but that is just my personal desire,
and obviously not His...
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NoNameMcgee
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Let me guess.... a food critic for steak houses? (get it...literally life consuming?)
*hangs head in shame*
If I could go back in time I'd tell the social worker the truth. And I'd turn my life over to Christ sooner. That'd change pretty much everything negative in my life now. That being said......
You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
Genesis 50:20.
You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
Genesis 50:20.
I would've aced all my classes, gotten an aeronautical engineering degree, worked for Boeing or NASA designing aircraft, gotten married, had 2.3 kids, gotten my private pilot's license, bought a plane, taken my family on vacation all over the country, bought a beachhouse in Maui.
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Depleted
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If I had runaway with my little brother, I wouldn't have finished high school, and he'd be completely ignorant, because he could never have gone to school at all. I also would have never learned how to love Dad.
If I had chosen to go to a different school halfway through college, after college, I wouldn't have been where I was for future-hubby to find me.
If I had not listened to new-hubby's idea of trying out being the housewife kind of woman, I would have had a good enough job to not be there for him when he broke his back. I would have been sole-wage earner, so couldn't be there for him. Instead, we found a job we could do together while his back healed.
If that job hadn't been so lousy that we quit and ended up in a ghetto apartment with no heat, friends of ours would never have offered us a wonderful apartment they were leaving, and another friend wouldn't have offered hubby a job with the federal government as he was leaving. The two things put us right back into middle-class for quite sometime.
If hubby hadn't talked me into living in The City, we wouldn't have been at the right time and place to find this house, no telling what would have happened when our car died, and "The Mother-of-All-Storms" hit, (how would we have gotten food or gotten to work for that 10 days?), and we would have been stuck far away from the medical help we can get now in ten minutes or less.
If hubby hadn't lost his job with the federal government, just as I came down with gallstones, he wouldn't have been here to take care of me, in that time when I didn't know moving me from an operating table caused me permanent chronic pain.
If that disability hadn't hit me, I wouldn't have been here for him while he went through chemo. (I'd have to go to work.) AND, I wouldn't have been home a decade later when he had to go to the hospital for a heart attack.
I see a whole bunch of stuff I'd rather not have gone through, but so much of it gave a way to help each other survive through the hardest, I can't think of anything I'd rather not have happened exactly how it did happen.
I can look back and see why God did that there then.