PASTE
How easy it is to always want some type of paste to repair all the mistakes of life. It would be nice if there was a permanent type that would accomplish that purpose.
But real life never seems to quite end up that way. We just never are able to find the perfect way to stop remembering those mistakes. They just haunt is in so many ways.
And sometimes it becomes so easy to blame those errors on somebody else. Denial works to a degree as a form of paste.
However, it when it dries and turns brittle that can truly make such paste fail to help. It will end up just crumble and fall apart.
I often been fascinated at the thought process some people go through to avoid admitting the obvious. Why is it so hard for us to simply accept we make mistakes and are imperfect?
I'm not saying trying to approve isn't important. There is never a point in life where change and improvement are not something to seek.
But if they don't come can we accept what that means? Are we truly able to embrace when our shortcomings are like demons we can't in any way exorcise by our own strength.
I've been dealing with a lot of people lately who seem to have a need to justify their unhappiness. They do this by looking for solutions from some outside source instead of looking within.
That is the one thing I enjoy about God's grace. When one is forgiven as your are, you don't have to keep pretending about being less that perfect.
Sin remains sin. It is the spiritual infection that affects us in so many ways and influences how we think and behavior.
But accepting that is not that easy for many. We just are far more comfortable with the stories we can invent that makes us less flawed.
It can be so hard to embrace the truth. To look deeply into one's soul and see how we are in need of God's strength in our lives instead of merely clinging to our own abilities.
This is a song that can be replayed as often as needed providing sooner or later we really hear the notes. And it is a melody that we won't always embrace.
Such is the mysteries of life. We know the answers, but keep cloaking it in secret so it sounds better than it is. God spares us having to hear the reality at times in this life and that is a blessing.
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