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ADHD, Encouragement, Forgiveness, Uncategorized

New year, new start!

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On January 1, I began my annual attempt to read through the Bible in a year. This is something I fail at more often than not. But nevertheless, I try every year even if the previous year was unsuccessful. So why do I keep trying? Because it’s a new year. A new opportunity.

If you have ADD/ADHD  you probably feel like your past is riddle with failures. I know I do. The great news is that whatever your failures are, they are in your past and covered by the grace of God. Let’s leave the past where it belongs. Behind us. Let’s go forward.

Lamentations 3:22-23

The faithful love of the lord never ends! His mercies never cease.
Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. (NLT)

1 John 1:8

If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth.
But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. (NLT)

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ADHD, Disappointment, Forgiveness, Mercy, Regret

When you can’t take it back

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There are some things you can’t take back–a word spoken in anger, an impulsive action, the consequence of procrastination. No matter how much we apologize, no matter how many reparations we make, we have many debts we simply cannot repay. What’s worse, we ADHDers are more prone to flashes of anger, slips of the tongue, and impulsive actions. We tend to do or say things we later regret more than other people do.

So what do we do when we can’t take it back?

Sometimes, the only thing we can do is run straight into the arms of God. Even so-called minor sins pile debts on ourselves we cannot repay. That’s why we must rely on the redemption that Christ gave us on the cross. God’s grace is big enough to cover our deepest sins and regrets. While there are consequences for our actions, God’s grace is still there in the midst of those consequences. So when you can’t take it back, when you can’t undo it, take it to God and let his grace cover it.

Lamentations 3:22-23 It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. (KJV)

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ADHD, Disappointment, Forgiveness, Mercy, Sins

Looking Back

A few weeks ago, I was looking for some old homeschooling documentation that I needed for one of my kids. As I was sifting through the boxes, I found reminder after reminder of the mistakes, sins, and missteps I had made throughout my life.

I got depressed and angry about them because I’m still living with the consequences of many of them. I’d love to say they were all a result of undiagnosed ADHD, but that would be a lie. What’s important to remember is that God has forgiven me for them all. He has separated them from me as far “as the east is from the west.” So I need to stop looking back at my sins and mistakes because they are covered by the grace of God.

What about you? Are you still looking back? It’s time to stop. Jesus died so that God could forgive you. If you’ve asked for forgiveness, rest assured that He gave it to you.

Psalms 103:12 NLT

He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.

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Regrets

This is on my heart this morning. As a person with ADHD,  I have a lot of regrets. I’ve said stupid things on impulse, words I can never take back. I’m tortured with thoughts of what could have been, had I only applied myself. Focused more.

Do you have regret? Are you suffering consequences for mistakes and sins from which you have long ago repented? Things you just can’t undo?

Take heart. The Lord is bigger than your mistakes.

Joel 2:25

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

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