Mistakes

If you erase all the mistakes of your past, you would also erase all of the wisdom of your present. Remember the lesson, not the disappointment. ~ Unknown

Mistakes. Wow. I’ve made them. A boatload of them too. Many of my mistakes were made because of carelessness. Far too many because of selfishness. Some because of foolishness, and regretfully, because I stepped outside the realm of God’s glory and chose sin.

I imagine if you thought about your life, you could categorize your mistakes similarly, although the actual mistake(s) might vary greatly. Choosing to sin is the most detrimental of all mistakes.

Although, I wish I could go back in time and undo my mistakes, right my wrongs, fix my indiscretions…I cannot.

While apologies and forgiveness are the tools in healing, learning from our past is what’s of greatest importance. If we don’t learn, the same mistakes become repetitious. What value is in that? Wisdom is found in the learning.

Our priority in life should be in how do we want to leave this life? I want to leave in the arms of Jesus. So learning something from every life situation, every mistake, is my challenge, my goal. I believe the biblical example is of God as the potter and I am the clay.

Mistakes are inevitable as we are imperfect people living among imperfect people in an imperfect world. But, it’s how we handle those mistakes made and what we do to prevent the same mistakes from happening again.

Hint…striving to please Jesus is the key. ♥️

Andi

Photo credit: Eagle Lake, WI, taken by my dear friend, Sandy C.