Perfect Failures, Part One

Going into the 2011 National Finals, a rookie NCAA coach asked an experienced coach for advice.

“It’s not about being perfect,” began the advice from the UCLA Women’s Softball Coach.  “It’s about managing your failures.”

In between those two sentences is an understanding that everybody makes mistakes.

Part of the proper handling of our mistakes is learning from them.

My father had a great way of viewing the cost of lessons from mistakes:  “Call it tuition.”

I’ve paid a lot of that kind of tuition.  You, too?

Our friend St. Paul knew about mistakes.  Bad choices.  Sin.  He said we’ve all been there and done that.

And that he excelled in those failures.

So he prayed about it.  A lot.

This was the answer to those prayers: “He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”  (2nd Corinthians 12:9)

More about this later…because, we’re also told in Matthew 5:48 to “Be perfect, like God in heaven is perfect”  Let’s think together about this.

Meanwhile, let’s remember that “It’s not about being perfect.  It’s about managing your failures.”

See you back here soon.