What do we do when we fail?
We’re only human, after all: and failure seems to be an inevitable part who we are.
Jesus’s approach was something like this: go for gold, and at the same time trust in grace.
But what does it mean to go for gold?…
To aspire to be as good as we can be: to seek to be like God.
Faithful. Pure. Wanting justice. Pursuing what is right, and true.
Fixing things, when they go wrong.
And what does it mean to trust in grace?
Grace is a child reaching up to his mother’s trustworthy hand, when he’s accidentally wet his pants.
Grace is a father holding his daughter’s scared eyes without reproach, when she comes home late after a date.
God calls us into perfection, and simultaneously reaches a hand out to us when we fall, to lift us back up again.
Wow.
What can we do when we fail?
Get back up. Trust in the outstretched hand. Keep aspiring to walk, and then to run.
Failure is only the beginning, not the end.
