Turn Your Regrets Into Fertilizer

Turn Your Regrets Into Fertilizer
Star Date: 06.06.25

Do you have a stack of regrets gnawing at you? My hope is to leave this world with as few regrets as possible. That’s no easy task, because if we’re honest and willing to pause for reflection, most of us carry a few we’d rather forget.

But here’s an idea: turn your regrets into fertilizer. Recycled regret—when handled with intention—can help you grow and change. But it takes action.

Here’s an example inspired by one of the top five regrets of the dying: “I wish I had the courage to express my feelings.”Don’t wait until you’re lying on a deathbed to turn that regret into something useful.

Looking back at my own life, I think of the crate filled with love letters between my wife and me—2,500 from each of us. That’s 5,000 expressions of truth, joy, struggle, and love. Some of those feelings stunk up the place. But we were knee-deep in fertilizer—real, raw, life-giving stuff.

The truth is, feelings aren’t good or bad—they’re either spoken or unspoken.
Unspoken feelings often fester into regret.
Spoken feelings? They become fertilizer—messy, real, and essential for healthy relationships.

Start turning your regrets into growth now. Let every buried feeling rise to the surface and set it free. Don’t wait. You have time today.

Joel 2:25 
“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten…”