Holiday seasons are times to contemplate future plans while looking back on past experiences. In fact, the Advent itself serves to help us maintain a spirit of reflection. As healthy as that may be, there comes a point when we need to think ahead, not look back. God's Word recounts an angel instructing Lot and his family to scamper out of Sodom and to resist looking back (Genesis 19). Lot's sons-in-law stonewalled part one of the directive and perished in the condemned city.