One of the best known former residents of Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is Freddie Fender. Best known for his hit song Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, Freddie was a man who knew about missed opportunities. He recorded the song which would later be a hit then spent three years at Angola after a drug arrest in Baton Rouge. He rereleased the song after Jimmie Davis got him out of prison. It had new meaning then.
OC talks about missed opportunities today; how Jesus cried over Jerusalem. If you had known . . . in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes —Luke 19:42. “What might have been” is a refrain we can all sing. We miss opportunties. God’s perfect plans for us are foiled not just once but again and again. Yet, like a GPS, each day he “recalculates” a route to Him. Satan would have us waste more time lamenting over what might have been, but Our Lord forgives, forgets and recalculates. He provides new plans for a joyous life of service after each stumble we make.
Tomorrow is Easter and it should be a celebration of many things. Just one of which is new birth and new beginnings. Tomorrow can we commit to living the life God intended for us: to follow Him with new commitment and new abandon?
We have Wasted Days and Nights; but we don’t need to waste any more.
Allelulia, Christ is Risen. Christ is Risen Indeed and because of it:
We are blessed.
Nick
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