I have survived my first year of university.
And if I have learned one thing it is that there are no such things as mistakes.
Except on tests. Then the mistakes are quite apparent.
There are no such things as mistakes in life. And if there is such a thing as a mistake it is the most beautiful thing to make. Mistakes teach us what perfection cannot. Perfection is comfortable. When we are comfortable we use what we have and do something nice and cute and lovely and good and we pat ourselves on the back and that is all. But a mistake, a beautiful mess up, that is where extraordinary happens. We are tossed into a situation when we no longer have the resources, the time, the energy, the brains, the fight, and we crumple. Let's face it. When put in that kind of situation when even our own fight, our own tenacity is no longer a resource, there is not anything else to do but to crumple.
But then this really cool thing happens guys, and it's called doing something you've never done before. You get up from your crumpled little mess and take in as much of that lovely oxygen as you can in one large breath and go out and do that impossible task, and you talk to that impossible person, and all of a sudden you're doing these really cool things that you've never even known to be possible and life just gets easier. And the best part of it all is, is that it was impossible, and it still is impossible, and you're not doing it. You're not doing it because it is impossible. It was God that got you up from your crumpled little mess, and God that filled your lungs with that glorious oxygen and God using you to do that impossible task and to talk to that impossible person. And possibly the best part of making mistakes is that it is humbling. And whatever worthiness I thought myself to have for making the decision to wind me up in Mistake-Ville is lost.
And I am left staring up at the One who let me experience the impossible.
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