Ok…How many of you have had the experience of looking back at your life and lamenting (perhaps over and over) a mistake you wish you wouldn’t have made? I think we’ve all done that at one time or another.

How many of you have had it keep you up at night?

That nagging, awful feeling of blame and guilt that just won’t let you go. 

The nightmares, the sleepless nights! We can be awfully hard on ourselves sometimes.

Wrestling in itself is not bad. It helps us discern right from wrong. It helps us learn and grow. It’s part of our human entanglement with our conscience and with God. But when our torture and turmoil gets out of hand, and anxiety sets in, we can become downright haunted by a past that just won’t let us go. That’s when we tend to push God out and take to imposing punishments on ourselv…