I think we sometimes forget that non of all the humans walking planet earth is a finished construction job…
We shout at 3years olds as if they’ve been around 30years. Expecting they should know what we know. And yet we learn from them…everyday. I realized, lessons that is long forgotten to me, my kids still has to learn. Lessons my children passes with flying colours leaves me 10 – 0, licking my wounds. One can never say: “I have arrived’ because the moment you say that, you are still in deficit of humility. And oh boy, what a tough one to get taught.
The moment we realise how much each of us still has to learn, grace becomes a bit easier. Going into friendships knowing that neither them nor us have all the skills to make it a success, we learn to have grace. I make mistakes, but so do you. We learn. We grow. We try again. So often we take offence and make it our best friend, our teacher. We lend out our ears to it and in no time we believe everything we think. We become bitter and self-righteous.
We need to teach our kids to practice grace. I’m not implying that we should be walkovers. But freely we receive love and grace from above, and freely we ought to give it to others. Showing mercy is so empowering. It takes a strong person to forgive another. Practice this with your children and teach them to be merciful, patient and kind toward others. Some of us are only a foundation. Some two rooms and kitchen. Others are a complete double story but lack a roof. Some get broken down and slowly rebuild. Nobody’s complete. Nobody’s done, yet. We all are buildings, dreaming to look exactly like the final plan our Creator Architect drew of us.
We are neighbors, you and me, and hey, so far you look like a real masterpiece in the making. Keep it up!
Granadilla Love,
Mags