dailydatewithgod

There seems to be this story that many of us have of perfection.  I am not sure if it is the result of watching too many movies or television where life is scripted and always works out in a given time frame or that people have a tendency not to share what is happening until the end result has been achieved.  As usual, the reason why matters little, it is about seeing life for what it really is: a process.  We do not magically go from crawling to running. We have all those steps in the middle where we stand and try to catch our balance and we fall.  We take two steps and then we get knocked over.  This is the pattern of living.  We take a chance and then sometimes we miss.  But more than likely when we stand up to walk again we remember in our minds and in our bodies how to better keep our balance. There is no failure unless, of course, we make it mean that we were not “supposed” to take that chance in the first place.  Even then, how would we know unless we actually took the chance? What we need more than anything is a new perspective on taking chances so that we see them as mis-takes.  Takes that missed the mark. Even those that are seen as “sins” come from a word that means “to miss the mark”.  So what if each time you made a mistake you were actually triumphant because you took a chance?  Then your life would be a series of triumphant mistakes.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to try something new today and if it doesn’t work out notice the triumph.  As Marvin Phillips said,  The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen