It is interesting the many times we are certain sure of our rightness...in the face of a hundred, a thousand, name a number, a big number...in the face of all of them, and all saying NAY...we will not be moved. For we are right.
Then when all pretty much wash their hands of us, we feel a niggle, perceive a glimmer, hear a sigh...and it is the soft sound of "maybe" that causes us pause. We choose to believe that it is too small, too lightweight to be significant. And besides which, we've won the round, we'd best just move on.
But the little insignificant thing is growing wings and circling in our head. It is making the sense that all the innumerable nattering voices could not make...or that we chose not to hear. Because we were right.
Blinding flash of the obvious: All of that is true when we're doing it right! Further, just because we're doing it right doesn't mean we can't do it better...or that it doesn't need to be done better. There's the door inching open, the beginning of our mind changing.
What makes learning so hard for our reasoning mind to grasp is ego...ego always standing in the doorway of our mind blocking our acceptance of being wrong. No wonder...that is the humility step in our learning process. What a surprise to discover that being wrong is one way (often the better way) of learning...experience makes it so much harder to forget.
We waste God's time and our energy regretting our mistakes. There is no instruction in my book that says, "If wrong, do thus and so;" mine says, "When wrong, etc."
And get grateful in the process.
Thank you.
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