Twists and turns

Yesterday is yesterday.  Changing it is not an option.  What then?  How is yesterday any good to us.  Well, of course, if yesterday was fantastic, then no harm done.  But what if yesterday was horrible?  The worst day of your life?  

You remember it.  Like all the rest.  You hold on to the good.  Reflect on the bad.  Let it make you better, not bitter.  

I'm looking back on all the twists and turns of my past.  My yesterdays.  I've been in a major funk for several days, maybe weeks, and have been dwelling on the terrible things.  

Wait.  Isn't that what the enemy wants us to do?  Think all is hopeless?  Feel discouraged, derailed, lost?  

I don't know why God lets bad things happen to good people.  We live in a fallen world.  I do know that God wants the best for his children.  He has plans for me.  For us.  When I start feeling like all is forlorn and downcast, I have to remember those twists and turns.  Hasn't God seen me though before?  He will again.