Third Day

I am in a quandry about whether to call today the third day or scrap the rest and start over.

Scrapping: I can erase the shame of the failure. I can gain a fresh and new start, knowing that I can do it.

The third: I can count the success of Day One and Day Two and feel the pride of including it in my season here, keeping the slump that followed in its place.

I'll go for risking a few down days between the great days. The habit of scrapping it all (including the triumphs) gives me the sense of total failure and never reaching something. Embracing all my successes and failures weaves my tapestry tightly and bravely includes the threads of a few failures--yet I am still moving forward In an Amish quilt there is always a flaw included so that we can remain humble and needful of His grace. Who am I to question that wisdom? It feels right. Not in the "drag around my garbage" way, but in the "I am the sum total of my weaknesses and strengths" way. The Lord does not make my strengths into strengths, but my weaknesses.

So that means:
1) Embrace all my efforts and failures as cheering points and turning points;
2) Remember to weave more good threads than bad;
3) Let the Lord help me change me and strengthen my weaknesses.

So today is the third day. I have spent the last 15 minutes in philosophy instead of eating. Good start!