Mistakes

Sometimes we struggle to believe we can ever overcome all of our past mistakes.  We might get caught up in the thought that we've done so much "wrong" that we can never get it "right".  We have to understand that there really is no right or wrong, there are only choices that take us down different paths, but the different paths all eventually lead to the same place.  Some choices make our journey easier, some make our journey more difficult, but no choice is really "wrong".

Let's for a moment think of our life as a play.  Let's envision ourselves as the actors in the play.  In our "play" we choose to act out a certain scene in a certain way.  Sometimes the scene doesn't turn out how we would like it too.  We have made some type of mis-take and now we have a chance to do a retake.  We have the chance to look at what we didn't like about how the scene in our life went and when we get the opportunity to act out the scene again we can make adjustments to try to get the outcome we desire.   Nothing was really "wrong" with the first scene, it just didn't give us the outcome we really desired, so we want to study the scene,  make adjustments and do a retake.

This is kind of how our life works.  We are given a situation to deal with and we have a choice in how to deal with it.  If we are in touch with our innerself, our heart or soul mind, we will most likely make a choice that gets us through the situation with the outcome we would most desire, we will learn some lessons along the way and then be done with the situation.  If we made a choice that led to an outcome we really didn't desire then we have the opportunity to look at the situation and the choices we made when acting it out and the next time that type of situation rolls around, we can make a different choice, hopefully this time one that's more intuned to our heart.

Each situation in our lives are little mini lessons for us and if we make mistakes the situations eventually present themselves again in some manner so we can do a retake.  Hopefully we've been awake and paying attention and can make the necessary adjustments so that we don't have to have the lesson several more times.  Sometimes we will even notice that those around us are living out lessons we have dealt with and still need to learn and we can learn our lesson by helping them through theirs.   Technically we experience the lesson through them, but don't have to live through it again.  How interesting is that???

If we are clinging to our mistakes let's let them go knowing that through them we've learned some hard lessons and now we are equipped to make different choices that will help us to stay on an easier path.