Cause and Effect or Because... and Effectiveness

what are your deepest Woulda-shoulda-s?

If we wallow in those we will never be successful!

Aren't you glad we are encouraged to forget what is behind and strain toward what is ahead?

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.
But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

Phil.3:13

Not always what we’d rather but rather that which we should

For what seems pleasing in the moment is not always good

Deception is a master at defending reason’s cause

It decorates disaster with momentary applause

Effect lasts so much longer than the cause that sets its course

Consequence for the action is a firm, far-reaching force

Therefore discernment looks beyond what seems good at first glance

To see what it will lead to, given enough time and chance

Futile to mourn at heaps that hold what none can resurrect

Better to leave behind what none can find, save in effect

Then learn from our mistakes that made us wiser than we were

Aware that what we do is always hinged to something more

The hardiness of habits makes them very hard to break

Then it is good to be astute in choices that we make

For though at first they may seem too minor to make a fuss

Sooner or later they become the best and worst of us

© Janet Martin