We make mistakes and when we make them the chorus we refer to is ‘we’re only human’.
To be human is to err, so we’re told.
What I certainly don’t want to suggest is that we should beat ourselves up every time something goes wrong and we could have done something different about it.
I do want to suggest that we sometimes devalue our humanity by admitting to being error-prone and leaving it there. Errors surely should be grace-points for what can is whole. Even as illness helps us to understand the value of being whole and well, so mistakes indicate what is life is really like to be human.
To be human is about the pursuit of peace – a state of wholeness. It’s broken, messed up people who are pursuing it, but we need not be defined by the mess and brokenness we have experienced. In fact that mess and brokenness are surely indicators of what really should be the human experience. Even as the quest for justice is our effort to correct what has been imbalanced.
It’s qualities like beauty and justice that brings out the human in us. It’s aspects of love and generosity that makes us human. Suggesting we accept anything less than that is probably not really celebrating what it is to be human.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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