Comments on: Chocolate Chip Cookies and Other Wonderful Mistakes

By: Lucinda J

Lucinda J — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:57:25 +0000

In reply to Grace. Ivan is kinda like that too!

By: Grace

Grace — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 02:30:45 +0000

I love the chocolate chip story-hence Toll House chocolate chip cookies! That lady probably had no idea she was creating a new recipe that would long out live her. My husband thinks chocolate chip cookies are the only cookie worth making or eating!

By: Lucinda J

Lucinda J — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:39:23 +0000

In reply to Brendan Armitage. Happy Easter to you! And thank you for these wise words. I never thought of mistakes in quite that way, but you speak life giving truth.

By: Lucinda J

Lucinda J — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:35:30 +0000

In reply to Ruth Anna. Totally relate with wanting to get everything exactly perfect.

By: Ruth Anna

Ruth Anna — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:27:27 +0000

Good thoughts here! I HATE mistakes. Recently I had a day where it felt little went right. A registration glitch (something for college), I sewed the cape onto the dress the wrong way (I never do that!!), and I lost my keys at Walmart during a quick trip. (Found them again, but not before crying my eyes out and contacting my bro-in-law to see what my options are. (My spare set was in my locked car).

I think I need a fundamentally different view of mistakes. It’s hard to be a perfectionist. I want to get it right every day all the time. Not possible. Not even what Jesus asks of me. Thanks for writing!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:17:06 +0000

Thanks for the inspiration, Lucinda! It really blessed my day!! Keep writing!!

By: Brendan Armitage

Brendan Armitage — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:09:44 +0000

If you take a test, do you learn what you don’t know if you answer all the test questions correctly? No. In that scenario, you didn’t learn about the limits of your information at all. The test was a complete waste of the test-taker’s time. You only learn when you incorrectly answer a question.

Mistakes are fundamental to our humanity. Without them, we would understand ourselves to be God, for we would be without sin or mistake.

So don’t hate your mistakes. They are the only way that we learn. They are the only way we are humbled from our natural hubris of comparing ourselves to God.

We should always forgive the sinner but never forget the sin. For the act of sinning did harm to another and needs to be atoned for, but the sin also potentially was a blessing to the sinner, for it teaches them both that they are human and what not to do next time.

God works in mysterious ways.

Happy Easter, Lucinda!