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Frank Olvera
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Last night, I watched the movie Repeaters (2010). In this movie, three recovering drug addicts are given the chance to relive the same day over and over. I won’t get into details (no spoilers). Just check out the movie.
What wouldd you do if given the chance to relive the same day and over (time loop)? In the movie, one of the main characters drowned and a another is fatally shot. The next morning, they were alive and ready to relive the same day.
This concept’s been used in several other stories like
- The X-Files – Monday (1999),
- Star Trek: The Next Generation – Cause and Effect (1992) and Time Squared (1989),
- Red Dwarf – White Hole (1991),
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- as well as numerous others TV episodes and movies.
The idea in all these stories is to correct an error or group of. What would you if you were given the chance to relive one day to correct a very bad mistake you’ve done?
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What are some of the gifts of the “awful mercy” of God? Loss, disillusionment, failure and big mistakes. It may appear heartless to the many people I have harmed throughout my life but I would not dare to change a single thing. Saving someone from their pain might just be condemning them to never change in a way best for their soul. My understanding of what is of maximum usefulness for another’s soul ultimate well-being, as well as that of my own, is hubris. There is necessary suffering, without which I may not come to know the greatest freedom and deepest joy possible in Christ. God wastes nothing for our redemption.
The regrets that would prompt such an adventure are, to me, nothing more than self-centeredness and selfishness. Love accepts life on life’s terms, and that means mistakes big and small. It is both in humbly admitting my wrongs and giving another the opportunity to forgive that we grow together, expand the soul.
Tom, I like your comment. I had never thought of it that way. Maybe I was too caught in the science fiction side of being given a second chance.
Thank you, Christian. It was a number of years ago, early in my sobriety, that I had the thought, ‘If God did allow some of us to go back and alter the past, those that did so most frequently would be those most lost to addictions.’ The more opportunities to undo what we object to, the bigger the mess we would make.
“My thinking is not your thinking, your ways are not my ways.” This fits me to a tee.