I'm learning. Slowly, but surely. Sometimes it feels like for every step forward I take two steps back. But eventually things sink in. Every mistake gives me more experience and a better perspective. When things don't end the way I want I'm able to say: "You're not the first thing in my life I've loved and lost. Yeah, I've thought worse things that I might be less inclined to merely just shrug off."
The more I mess up, the more I value my mistakes. I wonder if I really could have learned the same lesson without them. Probably not. As St. Teresa of Avila put it: "To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience." So I'm going to worry less about my mistakes as I start this new Church year and just count it all as experience.
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