I got my work back from an editor. Along with some grammar and punctuation edits, I had some content edits that I need to make. They weren’t huge changes, just some little tweaks I needed to make so that my story would be better. I found myself talking to some other writers about them. When I did, I realized that I was really thankful for the mistakes that I made.
Those mistakes are allowing me to see common errors that writers make and giving me an opportunity to fix the error in my own writing. When I go back to write more, I will be able to be more aware and not make those same errors. It is like the saying goes practice makes perfect. The more I write the better I become at writing because I am practicing the craft of writing.
When I realized that I wanted to expand on that idea. So many people, myself included, are afraid of making mistakes and being failures in life. However, the reality is that none of us have perfected the art of living; we are all just practicing it. The more mistakes we make the more we grow and learn. When I look back on my life, it isn’t the events where I succeeded that I learned the most, it was the times when I struggled and the times when I failed.
Somehow, when I was younger, it seemed like there was this idea that if you only believed in God and accepted Jesus Christ as your saviour, then everything in your life would be wonderful. Life doesn’t work that way. When I accepted God into my heart, I still was going to have struggles, heartaches, and pain. Life was always going to difficult, but the difference was God was going to be at my side through it all.
It’s comforting to know I have Him to help me as I practicing the art of living.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
