When Bailey (my granddaughter)graduated Kindergarten last year we attended her school play which was performed two days before schools end and summer vacation. It was the cutest play, that resulted in the students receiving their home made year book. It is so adorable that I will stash it away like a time capsule, and one day she will look back fondly at this very special time in her life.

Pre-kindergarten she would practice writing her name, and she always made the B backwards. Finally when she was to enter the world of Kindergarten she had her B's facing the right way.

I liken her mistake, to mistakes that adults can make too.

Honest Mistakes. 

It takes a very brave person to admit to making an honest mistake

Did you ever mistakenly call someone by their wrong name? Maybe you were just trying to be polite, but you offended them by calling them someone else. 

Did you ever mistakenly short change someone? They had to bring it to your attention and you felt your skin change all the colors of red due to embarrassment? You know it wasn't on purpose, but what of the other person? Will they think you where sly and on the take?

For that matter did a bank teller ever OVER  PAY you, and you had to bring the money before her and show her the error? I did when a bank teller overpaid me. I wasn't going to take the money and run like someone who is dishonest would purposely do.

The wise words of John Wesley about Christians "They are not perfect in knowledge-They are not free from ignorance, no, nor from mistake."

We should forgive more and realise that honest mistakes are going to happen. To not make a mistake means as John Wesley said to be "Perfect in Knowledge". And we know no one is perfect.

We need to know that after we make a mistake, we are still pretty special in the eyes of God. Even if we have a long way to go.

Don't let people cut you down. The only microscope that matters is the one God alone will use when he judges.

Imperfect people will make honest mistakes, In the mean time like Bailey's drawing lets just see each other as a work in progress.  

The promise is a one day perfect world but that isn't now....

"And the wolf will dwell with the lamb,
And the leopard will lie down with the kid,
And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little boy will lead them.
Also the cow and the bear will graze;
Their young will lie down together;
And the lion will eat straw like the ox.
And the nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra,
And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.
They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea."

(Isaiah 11:6-9 NASV)

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