TruthQuest Journals:

Andy

PACIFIC BEACH, Calif. (BP)--I think the most powerful thing that happened to me was also one of the most embarrassing and humbling things that has happened to me so far on the trip.

Today as I was getting off the bus, I dropped something. When I bent over to pick it up, I raised up and busted my head on the cabinet. It kind of stunned me for a minute. It knocked me to the ground and really made me dizzy. After I got up I tried to remember what happened, and it showed me this.

From time to time, we all fall, we all stumble, and we all fail. We think we have it all under control, we think we have it under our belts, and then we hit something that shakes us, something that really stops us dead in our tracks. We end up just sitting on our “Holy Goodness” shaking our head and wondering what happened.

We wonder where we went wrong and what we did to deserve this. Many times we did not do anything to deserve it, many times it was just a pure and plain accident. We were in the “wrong place at the wrong time.” We all would give our right arm just to be able to retrace our past wrongs, just to be able to go back and fix every wrong we had done, to talk to every person we did bad to. But we can not live in the past, we can not change our wrongs. The only thing we can do is put a little ice on it, shake it off, and go again.

Pick up where you left off and give it another shot. God knows no failures. He forgives and He forgets. Even though that knot may still hurt on your head, to Him, it means nothing. He loves us. He is our personal Tylenol (I know, that’s a terrible joke.)

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