Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes! That's all I do all the time is constantly mess up. At school, at home, and most definitely at work. It is so frustrating. Tonight, for example. Ten minutes before I left I spilt a whole box of Buffalo Sauce all over the floor. I take orders wrong, and am forever getting in people's way because I'm not sure what to do, so when I actually get around to doing something it's someone else's job or I'm obscuring some other job from getting done. I want to scream. Why can't I do something right for once? Why can't my body and brain coordinate smoothly? Why am I such an idiot?
Of course, messing up leads to another thing: I am constantly saying "oh, sorry," which irritates me to death because I know it irritates others as well. I'm sick of saying sorry. I feel like such a doormat. If I mess up I wish I had the confidence to just keep going without a second thought after I've corrected myself. No saying sorry. No feeling stupid. Forget sorry. It's a fake word anyways when it becomes trite and overused.
I want to be right for once. I want perfection. I want to be Christ-like. What is wrong with me?
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Your human love. Nothings wrong with you. Your new to your job, so of course there is going to be mess ups often. I have moments all the time where I feel like an idiot. You've just got to learn to correct yourself, laugh it off, and always remember that your ALWAYS going to make mistakes. No one but GOD is perfect, everyone messes up at times, ESPECIALLY when they are new at things. Your an amazing girl, and you do a lot of things right, your just not experienced at your job yet. "Practice makes perfect" :]
love you darling
two words... loosen up.
you let things get to you that shouldn't. you are afraid to cause someone to hurt so you say sorry instead of letting them "deal with it"...which is what they should do. get a thicker skin...put me on for instance ;) haha, well we both know that wouldn't be a good idea! ...try to think a little more the way i do (in certain situations) and then go from there. you're doing fine and you'll continue to improve. give yourself time.
I like to think of perfection as the prize at the end(well deffinitly one of the prizes). Like when we get to heaven it'll be like Christmas - all of these prizes that we get to open. While our Daddy looks at us opening those gifts to see our expression.
And we are walking towards it/perhaps running, sometimes running. But we fall as we go along - those are our 'mess-ups' or 'mistakes'. It's not so much that we've fallen - because we will never get to perfection until we get that prize - but it's how we get up, how we turn around for a short second and view what just happened. It's what we learn from falling down. What we allow God to teach us. Then it's how we rise from stumbling, how our weaknesses become strength's in Christ. Dude, how we grow in Him, how we become Christ-like. (:
enjoy your imperfection
i sho' enjoy mine
My friend.
I know we've talked about this before, because we share this attribute, but you, or we rather, tend to over think.
We take one little thing we do wrong, that most people would just look over, and blow into a huge problem.
Who hasn't spilled something somewhere they shouldn't have? Who doesn't get in peoples way? Everyone does.
One thing I know is that you will never have, is perfection. Because Christ was perfection, and we will never be equal to him. Never wish for perfection, you will never receive it.
Quit getting upset, listen to what God is trying to teach you. I promise you he's not trying to tell you you're a doormat. or an idiot. or stupid.
rejoice in what the lord has done, don't doubt it by looking at what you have not.
Many years ago on my first job out of high school I did something stupid at work and then began to put myself down. There was a very wise and elderly black gentleman there who saw what was going on and came up to me to give me some advice. What he told me I have never forgotten. He said "As long as people are still human they'll continue to put erasers on pencils." It's not whether you make a mistake or not but how you respond when you do. A couple of other quotes I like which are posted on my Facebook are: “Success is getting up one more time than you fall." — Percy Miller and a rather long one from Charles Swindoll. "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes." Then there's the one from a famous person, me, A friend is someone who believes in you even when you don't believe in yourself. Thank you Jesus for being my friend." Do you know that God has a picture of you in His wallet?
Well, He would if He had a wallet. You see, God loves you so much that
if He carried a wallet, He would have your picture there. He would takeit out whenever He met someone and brag on you. If God had your picture He would also have it on his refrigerator. God's love knows no bounds. No person has ever been born - nor will there ever be one who is just like you. No one else has your point of view, your personality, or your passions. No one else has your ideas, your talents, your abilities, your creativeness. No there is truly nobody else like you. Yes, God created you to be different from everyone else, and that's why you're special.
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