August 12 – Looking Back to Move Forward

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Aug 12, 2026 · 18m · transcript

Pastor Mike opens with something he was carrying this time last year — a season of real depression rooted in unresolved family relationships he'd decided he was powerless to change. He'd been praying the Serenity Prayer daily and getting nowhere, until he saw why: he had the relationship filed under "things I cannot change" when it belonged under "courage to change the things I can." Wrong category, and no amount of praying was going to sort that out for him. He ties it to Jesus' instruction in Matthew 5 to be reconciled to your brother before you bring your gift to the altar, and notes that…