“God has given you grace; maybe you should give yourself some grace as well.”
Are you usually very hard on yourself especially when you make mistakes? You beat yourself up (and maybe beat yourself down too 😑) and drag around the guilt feeling everywhere you go whenever you make a mistake.
I spent a very long time ⌛ this way and later came to the realization that it wasn’t serving me in a positive way. Carrying that guilt feeling made me unhappy 🙁 and miserable ☹ and I just didn’t want to continue that way each time I made a mistake (always making mistakes with trying new things so imagine how that often the guilt sting would be; plus I am human 😐) .
To address this, I had to learn to give myself the gifts 🎁 of grace and forgiveness each time I made a mistake or did something I wasn’t supposed to do. And then I would dispassionately pull a lesson from that experience so that I would do something different when next I will be making a similar decision. This is how I continue to stay clear of the guilt feeling and me beating myself up & down 🙂 (it can still be a struggle) . And for sure, it’s been a way better way to deal to the aftermath of making wrong judgment / mistake. (It’s a happy and more bearable outcome ☺)
Is this something you can apply to get rid of the similar guilt feeling ? 🙂
It’s very hard for us to move forward happily in life if we keep dragging guilt/shame from our past mistakes / misdemeanor. It’s time to get rid of that guilt feeling. It’s funny how sometimes we freely give other people love, grace and forgiveness but we withhold those virtues from ourselves 😔.
We deserve more grace, love and forgiveness from ourselves.
“Give yourself some grace. You’re doing the best you can. And you’re still learning. Nobody has it all together.”
To your guilt-free life!!
Music: Forgiveness by Matthew West