A few months back, I stopped by HEB to do a little grocery shopping. When I came out of the store about 45 minutes later, it was pouring down rain. I had not brought my umbrella with me, so I stood there a few minutes contemplating what my next move would be.
After thinking it through, I realized that I was just going home and it didn't really matter if I got soaked or not. So I held on tight to the cart and took off across the parking lot. As I was walking quickly to my car, another car honked at another car for some reason. When he did that, it startled me and my foot slipped. I didn't fall, but my foot kinda turned underneath itself and it hurt! My entire leg all the way up to my hip hurt every day for about a month. I'm too young to be hurting like that!
So, as you can imagine, I've become a little skittish when it comes to walking outside in the rain. Yesterday, I was about to walk out of my building and it had started to rain. I had on the exact same shoes that I was wearing at HEB that day that I slipped. So, as I started to take that first step, I was a little leery! I put my foot down very deliberately and slowly. Then took the next step and then the next. Until finally I made it to my car without slipping.
It made me think of real life. How, so many times we are "walking" and doing our own thing, and we slip up. We do or say things that have negative consequences. We get hurt or we even hurt others. Sometimes, we may not want to get back out there and try again; we are afraid of slipping up again. But the cool thing is that if we learn from the things that made us slip in the past, we are less likely to make those same mistakes again. If we take time to think about our actions, take our steps deliberately and with purpose....the rest will come easily.
Don't be afraid of past mistakes. Learn from them. Be a better person because of them. Live life by putting one foot in front of the other and walk with purpose!
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