“The past should not be a place where we live, but something from which we learn. We are to forget ‘those things which are behind’ and reach ‘forward to those things which are ahead,’ and we’re to ‘press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus’ (Philippians 3:13, 14). God is a redeemer and a restorer. We need to allow Him to be both. He can redeem the past and restore what was lost. He can make up for the bad things that had happened (Psalm 90:15).”