Mistakes

It has been said that the greatest tragedy in the human experience is not so much sin but the failure to learn from sin. One author put it this way:

Mistakes+Intelligent Review (learning from them/reflection)=Success.

If we are human we will fail. St. Paul gets at this aspect of the human condition in Romans 7: 15, "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate." The good news, as St. Paul goes on to assert in Romans Chapter 8, is that we can-- empowered by God--journey out from beneath the tyranny of the "flesh"--as St. Paul calls it--to the freedom of the Lordship of Jesus Christ. But, in the interim, what do we do when we stumble? We, with God's grace and help, pick ourselves up, confess our brokenness, reflect and learn, and grow through it. Here's a song that may help in the reflection:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU1UkZq55fI "What if I Stumble?" by D C Talk

Grace and Peace,

Mike+