Mistakes....

 

Made several mistakes today.  Included in that number are a few big ones. Nothing fatal but they became issues for me and for others.  For a  perfectionist like myself, this is particularly frustrating. Some of these mistakes were my own, others where mistakes made by people I am accountable for (and was held accountable for their mistakes). Mistakes remind me that I have not yet “arrived’.   What really vexes me  is that today’s mistakes are ones I have made in the past, repeatedly. My father used to tell me that “everyone makes mistakes but only a fool makes the same mistake twice” By that reckoning, I am the greatest fool that has ever walked the earth. Now I know I  should put all of this  behind me, learn from my mistakes and move on. I get it , but it’s not always so easy for me.  A part of me wants to be miserable and fret over them but I refuse to lose this battle. Yep, I made some pretty big mistakes today but I’ll get past them,  probably will make a few more tomorrow as well.  I will get past those too.’  Seems like so much of life is simply getting past the mistakes we make.

 

“Lord, help me to lean on your wisdom… to avoid the mistakes that  I should and to make the mistakes that I must so that I can learn what you would have me learn.”