Queen of No Regrets: Finding Redemption & Divine Favor

The throne room is silent when the queen mother of no regrets enters. Everyone stands—everyone, including the king, who is her son. What an aura of mystery. Why is the queen the king’s mother? Why isn’t the queen his wife? And why is she the queen of no regrets? I plan to answer those questions, but before I do, I want to give my witness. I wasted a lot of my life. I spent a lot of time playing football even though I was small and slow. I spent a lot of time studying majors that weren’t a good fit for me and working jobs that laughably weren’t a good fit for me. Dating my life was a blend of pursuing women who weren’t a good fit and making bad decisions—with the occasional woman who was a good fit. In later years, I came to regret it all. I kept wanting to get in a time machine to relive my life and not mess up, but I couldn’t do that. So I was stuck. In the Old Testament, Solomon’s mother, Bathsheba, needed to be queen. He had too many wives, and many were of weak intellect and even weaker faith. She had one of the most merciful and important roles of honor in the kingdom: if you had regrets and no other options, you could plead your case with her and gain special access to the king. In the Catholic faith, we’re blessed to have the eternal queen mother—the eternal Bathsheba, Mary. She’s the Queen of Heaven and Earth. And when we turn to her, she will help us gain favor with Christ. It didn’t need to be this way, but this is what is pleasing to him. He set it up this way. The more we honor her, the more praise and glory we offer him. I turned to the queen of no regrets and brought her all of mine. And God redeemed all my mistakes. I found myself offering wisdom to others from everything that I learned in classes where I was a misfit, and in jobs that went nowhere. I gave people dating advice that I learned by making mistakes. And I always turn to Mary when it seems that there’s no hope. After all, when you’re going to lose a game and you’re desperate for a score, what play do you run? The Hail Mary. I learned that because I played football. Stephen in the Old Testament is about to be stoned to death. He needed strength to be a martyr. What did he do? He turned to Mary, who prayed for him. And he saw Jesus standing at the right hand of God the Father in heaven. As Jesus gave him strength—why was he standing? He was in the presence of the Queen of No Regrets. Long live the Queen.