Learn from Them

One of the hardest parts of “growing up” is realizing that your parents aren’t perfect. As a child growing up in a relatively stable home, your parents may tell you something you don’t want to hear, but you don’t think of them as sinful. However the truth of the matter is they are. Every human is. This is not the place (and there really isn’t an appropriate place) to compose a list of my parents failings. But I know they exist. This knowledge presents me with two options: dwell on their failings and become bitter and jaded or be aware of their failings to guard against them in my own life.

            I have this dream of what my future life will be, and it involves me being perfect. Talk about an unattainable goal.

But I can by the grace of God, be better than my ancestors. I can learn from the past. Yet I will not live out this learning in my adult out-on-my-own life if I don’t begin and practice now.

            So I will strive to be perfect. I will never get there on this earth, but I am called to try. God commands us to “be holy for I am holy.” In life and faith, we have a tendency to put things off. This calling shouldn’t wait till Monday, a new month, a new year, or the beginning of adulthood. It must start now.
Sincerely,