Grace For The Messy Moments
Grace For The Messy Moments Recently, while out to eat with my husband, he said something to me that probably would have crushed my spirit a few years ago. Let me set the scene: We’re sitting at a table with an elderly neighbor socializing while we enjoyed our meals. Hubs reaches across my plate to stop my sleeve from landing in the gravy on my potatoes. This was only a few moments after he handed me a napkin to wipe food from my face (in my defense I was very hungry lol). As his quick reflexes save my cardigan sleeve from being drenched with gravy, he giggles and says “You’re worse than a kid.” His sentence was light, playful, and completely innocent. We had a little laugh about my messiness and enjoyed the rest of our meal. In the past my reaction may have been to laugh his comment off in the moment. But internally, I would have obsessed over it for days, or even weeks, berating myself for “not being enough.” For “not being able to do anything correctly.” In my mind his words me...