Falling Forward

I literally fell into a client's house yesterday.  My heel on my high heels got caught in a crack in the threshold of their door frame and I fell into the living room.  I didn't really know the clients so it could have been an interesting first meeting.  But I shook it off, we had a good laugh, and I ended up having a good visit with a really nice family.


This isn't the first mishap I've had in August.  Last week, I was invited to our local Rotary meeting to introduce myself and my new career.  I somehow managed to knock over my full glass of diet mountain dew, drenching the President's binder full of papers.  I definitely broke the ice during that meeting.  I helped clean up the spill as graciously as I could, and went on to learn a lot about a cool organization and how it helps our community.


Probably the worst blunder I've had recently happened a few weeks ago.  I met with an elderly client in Manhattan.  I somehow managed to bump her rock retaining wall as I was backing out of her driveway.  The wall crumbled.  The client was very understanding, and gave me a big hug after I tearfully walked back into her house and told her what I had done.  I know she had seen much worse things in her long life and this was just a small inconvenience for her.


We are humans.  We make mistakes.  It's how we handle ourselves after we make our mistakes.  I'm learning that in a business where you deal with people everyday, you are bound to make mistakes.  I'm a perfectionist so it's taken me a while to understand that it's ok for me to screw up once in a while.  When I feel down and am having a bad day, I know I need to keep trudging ahead.  I can fall forward into the arms of Jesus and know that I don't have to be perfect.  We are all children of God and are wonderfully made!  As long as I keep moving forward, and "fall forward" each day, I know I can handle anything this life throws at me.  ~ Lydia