A few days ago I went to support a friend at her mums funeral. She had lived with her mum. I had come to know my friend in different places and spaces over a few years and then I began to visit her home from time to time. My friends mum was looked after by carers and lived upstairs. On one occasion I went up and said hello to my friends mum and had a brief conversation with her. Sadly my friends mum fell and she went into hospital and never recovered. After her death I was sad that I had not gone up the stairs to talk with her on other occasions. As I was thinking upon this the words “you did not visit me” came into my head and with it a deep sense of rebuke. I was reminded of the verses in the bible “for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me a drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.” Matthew 25:35-36 (NKJV) At my friends mums funeral I learnt more about her life. She had impacted so many and served so faithfully. I am poorer for not taking the time to get to know her more. It has made me determined to do things differently in future. To not visit a home without saying hello to others who also live there. There may be people reading this who have done similar. The good news is that “there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus” Romans 8:1. We can say sorry to God for not doing what we could have done. Receiving forgiveness from God brings us peace. Jesus died on the cross for all the wrong things we have done so we can have this peace. The past does not have to determine the future. We can change by His grace and learn from our mistakes.