Have you ever wanted a “do over?” I watched the PGA Championship last week and was reminded that in golf, a do-over is called a “mulligan.” It is a second chance at a shot with no penalty, played from the same spot as the previous shot. It’s not allowed under the rules of golf but is often used by players in casual games.
Have you ever wanted a “do over,” a “mulligan” in life. A second chance to go back and do it over again but retaining the wisdom you have acquired (probably by not doing it right in the first place).
There is much of my life I would do over if possible. Things like buying houses when the market was high and selling them when the market was low. Or more important things like being a more understanding wife … or a better mom … or like finding the LORD sooner and serving Him more diligently.
Unfortunately, there are no actual “mulligans” in life. To think that I can go back and do it again better than before is fanciful thinking. All I can do now in these far fewer days in front of me than what I have behind me is to keep going forward. Or as Paul said … “reaching forward to what is ahead.”
“Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.” [Philippians 3-13-14 HCSB]