I have been tutoring for a few weeks now. The experience is great, but there’s a life lesson that I’m finding invaluable. It’s a given period of time. During that time, I have to try my best to do what I can to do the job. There’s no getting extra time. There’s no do overs. So, once I start, I just have to try to do what I can.
It’s like life in many ways. I only get one shot at life. I don’t get to ask God for extra time. I don’t get to go back and re-live a year of my life thinking I can do it better. Instead, I have to just push through doing the best I can.
With the tutoring, I realize that things don’t always go according to plan, but I have found a great deal of patience and forgiveness for myself. I realize that I am going to do my best and I’ll get better as I go along. The more I see myself doing that, the more I realize I should be doing that with my life. I make mistakes and things don’t go the way I planned, but that’s because it’s life. I realize now I should just give myself a break when mistakes happen and when things don’t go according to plan. I just need to keep trying.
Tonight, I pray for God to help me to remember to have patience and understanding for myself and others because life is difficult. It is a mess, but we just have to keep going and do our best. I think that’s exactly what God expects us to do anyway.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
