Guiding Words Alive and True
I do not wish to go back in time,
it’s futile to even think.
To live each day the better way
forgetting those things that are behind.
No regret ever makes any difference,
but to the one who allows it reign.
Useless thoughts of life unfulfilled
only causes pain.
Trusting I’m on the ordained path
is what I’m taught to do.
A faithful life moving forward
believing I’ll make it through.
Unfulfilled fantasies,
hopes, goals and dreams,
make me think and wonder
that I didn’t get it right.
Guiding words alive and true
provide the answers I seek.
Love, joy and a peaceful mind
tells me to give up this fight.
The battle of living is won,
but not by power or might.
Living the faithful way
is not by sight.
Having moved through spiritual discipline, existential questioning, and the embrace of vocation, the collection now turns to face everything behind — the regrets, the unfulfilled things, the paths not taken — and deliberately chooses not to be governed by them. This is not a poem of denial. It is a poem of informed and hard-won release, anchored in the living words that have guided Scott’s entire interior journey. It is the most psychologically honest poem in the collection.
There are things I did not do, paths I did not take, versions of my life that did not happen. For a long time I allowed those unfulfilled things to occupy more space in my mind than they deserved. Writing this poem was my way of consciously and deliberately setting them down. Not because they do not matter but because carrying them serves no purpose. The guiding words that have shaped my faith are clear on this — press forward, forget what is behind, walk by faith not by sight. I am choosing to do exactly that. The battle is already won. I just have to live like I believe it.