"Today is Unique !
It has never occurred before and it will never be repeated.
At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally, forever.
But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities."
Mistakes are a part of being human.
Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons,
that can only be learned the hard way.
Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Al Franken
Look for The Lessons
Sometimes in the pain & adversity of our trials
We consume ourselves with one thought,
Of how in the world we can escape from it
And the heartache the trial has brought.
But perhaps a better way to focus ourselves
Would be to look for the lessons it contains.
For the lessons God sends us are most surely there
Woven into the fibers of pain.
How else do we learn compassion for others
If not through our own severed hearts.
For brokenness is a gift that God will bless
To prove He is doing His part.
No time of affliction is ever gone to waste
If we learn from the comfort God gives.
And when we share that comfort...
Grace & power is seen
And God gets glory in the life that we live.
Those times of desperation when we
Fall down before Him and
Beseech Him with our own desperate cries,
Somehow and some way make us
Notice desperate people because
We see them through experienced eyes.
Heartache and adversity teach us and
Mold us for they are the
"textbook" God tenderly chooses,
To reveal priceless lessons of wisdom
And compassion