The Power of Mistakes (and what a beautiful thing they can be!)

Well, I decided to write a blog about a few things that happened this past week, as they are all very relevent.
First, this week I have been volunteering at our church's Vacation Bible School. It is one week long for a couple hours a night where each day kids learn a bible story, play games do crafts, etc. The goal is to bring kids closer to Jesus, and hopefully God will touch there hearts! Well, the two weeks before VBS started, I was helping as much as I can decorate the church and transform it into a Bayou (That is the theme for VBS this year.) One of the first things that was painted for the scenery was 'murky water.' Now of course when you are painting you test out a piece to make sure it looks right. Well, the first piece that was painted was to white and to light. So it was saved to possibly be used for something else. The following week we had to decorate the front of the sanctuary. We laid down wood for a dock leading out to the river, built a fishing hut, hung up trees and branches, laid a boat down in the water, etc. The wall behind the dock was kindof plain, so we were tossing up different ideas of how to decorate it, and a light went off, How about the messed up murky water. AMAZING idea. Next was the pilings that line the dock. They were round cardboard tubes cut to size, and threaded together by big rope. The original color painted was a taupy-beige color. Well we were trying to make them look like real wood, so I thought try using black chalk. That didnt work. So we tried black paint. That didnt work either. Well, my good friend, Allison, put some white paint on a sponge brush and decided to use the white to mesh the black together. PERFECT IDEA!!!! What was about to be another mistake ended up working out wonderfully. Now, two mistakes ended up adding an immense amount of beauty to this dock. In essence, I think that people make mistakes ALL the time. It's inevitable that mistakes happen. Now, you can take your mistakes two ways. You can let them go, and throw them away, forget they ever happened, like we were almost gonna do with the paper and the pilings. Or you can take these mistakes that you made, and use them. Transform those mistakes into the most BEAUTIFUL DOCK THAT YOU ARE BUILDING WITH YOUR LIFE!!!! Here's an even crazier thing about this mistake thingy. I came across a friend of mine who was going through a really rough time a couple of days ago. He actually had made a HUGE mistake. Because of this situation with the dock, I was able to tell him how beautiful mistakes can be. And let me just tell you something. This was a huge revelation to him as well!!! So now because of that dock, it now served two purposes. It was used for the most amazing week EVER, and was used to help out a friend in need. AMEN TO THAT!!! (PS, Ill have a pic of that beautiful dock in a few days so you can all see!)