I can't stop replaying what I should have done differently.

Regret keeps the old footage running because it feels like the honest thing to do. But the promise here is in the present tense — now it shall spring forth — and it is set in a wilderness, not in spite of one. Peter denied Him three times and still got the keys.

The conversation

The child: “Daddy God, I can't stop replaying what I should have done differently.”

God: “You can't go back. And I don't want you to. I'm not working in the past.”

The child: “But I can't undo what I did.”

God: “'Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth.'”

God: “A way in the wilderness. Rivers in the desert. Even the barren place.”

The child: “Others moved forward while I stayed stuck.”

God: “Peter denied Me three times. I made him the rock of the church.”

God: “'I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten.'”

The child: “How do I stop replaying it?”

God: “Speak truth over it. I already wrote a different ending.”

The child: “Can I really start fresh? After everything?”

God: “'Now it shall spring forth.' Now. Not after you've atoned enough.”

The child: “I'm letting go of the old film. Show me the new thing.”

God: “It's already growing.”

"Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert." Isaiah 43:19, KJV