What If ...? :(

     Probably one of the greatest questions of all time, complete with a myriad of endings.  What if I had made another choice?  A different decision changes everything doesn't it?  What if I had...
finished school     took that job     applied for work     divorced     not divorced     tried harder     spend more time with family     loved deeper     not aborted     said I was sorry     only paid attention     saved more money    kept my mouth shut - the list can be endless!
     We are all trapped in a time line that marches constantly forward.  Choices present themselves daily with inevitable paths of good or bad.  Usually, decisions that seem to be unimportant at present time, carry tremendous regret later.   Time has a way of making them almost like antiques, priceless.  And the especially bad ones have ever increasing consequences!  It also seems to me that bad decisions were usually the ones I didn't pray about.  I let my own instincts or desires lead the way.
     Many argue that prayer is useless.  That God doesn't answer questions or shine a light along the correct path.   Sometimes thats right.   But other times, oh, those other times when after praying the phone rings, or there's a knock on the door, and the answer is there.  I believe God wants to help us, especially when our desires line up with His.  How can we know His desires?  He gave us a book, ever read it?  Actually, the more you read the Bible,  decisions come easier and easier.  Proverbs 16:25 says, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death."  Now, listen to Psalm 1:1-3, "How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked... his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.  He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water...and whatever he does, he prospers.
     Hey, God also allows some "do overs" on those bad choices.  Consequences aren't always permanent.  Why not pray about it?