NO REGRETS '14

Today was the 2014 No Regrets Conference // Kenosha // Men's Conference --- hundreds of men making the choice to spend the day worshiping - having community - learning - growing - serving --- to ultimately return home to their wives, children and families, having walked another step closer to Jesus.


These times in a man's life are defining.  We must not neglect these moments.

Because there will come a time -- when the kids are out of the house and grown -- the garage will no longer be full of bikes -- no half-finished school projects sitting on the kitchen counter -- the refrigerator will be free from chocolate finger smudges -- the gerbil cage will be gone.

There will come a time -- that you and your wife won't have to search for missing puzzle pieces -- you won't have to answer a hundred of those same annoying kid questions -- no more geometry homework to tutor -- the final loose tooth tied to a doorknob.

There will come a time -- that you won't have to lend out the car keys and tremble in your skin until they're returned safely -- no more sending anybody back upstairs because she came down to go out in 'that' -- the chatter and clink of glasses and silverware at the dinner table now silent.

The house will always be clean.
Peaceful.
Quiet.
Empty.
Filled with memories.

And we'll say to ourselves: 'Did I do enough?  Am I content to be happy with just 'me and her' now?  Are there any regrets?'

'These times in a man's life are defining.'

Days like No Regrets are the moments in a man's life that help define the tomorrows so we don't have to look back and wish it was yesterday again.

Thanks to God --- and to the men, volunteers, breakout speakers and attendees who made No Regrets '14 a great success.  We'll see you next year.

And be blessed.