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.