Learning Grace...

I'm learning grace. Many of what I've learned, is through Andrea.

But I'm still processing that lesson.

Today, I'm giving myself grace.

My grace.

I recognize we weren't perfect parents.

Well intentioned.

Doing the best we could with the tools we had.

Andrea was strong-willed.

We dealt with that at an early age and she learned compliance.

Maybe that was poor parenting.

Maybe wise parenting.

I truly have no idea.

If I could go back in time and do it all over...

If we tried a different approach..

Still, the results could have been exactly the same.

We don't truly understand the algorithms of life.

I don't know.

What I do know is this:

We tried.

We failed.

We succeeded.

We made mistakes.

We grew.

And we loved.

We were not perfect, but we loved to the best of our ability.

God's grace covers us imperfect humans.

I can't change what I didn't know.

Thank you Lord for your grace. May we all feel it today.