The Best is Yet to Come-Red

We would all like a do-over. A chance to go back and right a wrong. A chance to say "I'm sorry" or "I love you". We take this life and the life of our loved ones for granted. If we are not careful, we can can lose hope and despair, we can become stuck looking back instead of looking ahead.

Red elaborates on this in their song The Best is Yet to Come:

Afraid it won’t come ‘round again
Afraid to move on
Wishing I could go back when
Everything was easier and meaningful to me

Wanting all we left behind
Like it’s the answer
An hourglass we can’t rewind
Holding back the life that I’ve denied for so long
Can I find my way to you

And after all that we’ve been through
And after all we left in pieces
I still believe our lives have just begun
‘Cause now the past can be outrun
And I know you are the reason
I still believe the best is yet to come

A photograph still in my hands
Afraid to let go
The minutes rain like grains of sand
And time is just a war that’s stealing dreams from within
So come and take them back again

I won’t turn around
And let it all slip away
I’m never backing down
‘Cause tomorrow’s a new day
And everything can change  

 

As Red says, there is hope. We must change our gaze from the past to the future, from regret to hope, from what is seen to what is unseen.

 

 For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:17-18

 

When we realize that the troubles in this life are temporary, that we have hope in eternal life. then we will truly know that the best is yet to come.