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Monday Morning Encouragement: Mistaeks are Mandatory, Flub it Up
Mistaeks are Mandatory: Flub it Up
by Troy McLaughlin
I saw a sign on the back of a car this week. It said “Mistaeks are Mandatory: Flub it Up.” I laughed. But, what if we lived like this? How would our lives be different? How would we approach fear, success, failure? What if you were given permission to “flub it up.” How would you act ? Would you try more things? Would you help more? Would you have more joy?
I spent 3 years waiting to start Project Pastor because of fear of flubbing it up. I even had a daily alarm on my iPhone for a year reminding me I needed to start Project Pastor. But I didn’t. Why? Because of fear of failure. I was concerned I would flub it up, and in flubbing it up, that would define me.
You are not defined by your mistakes or failures, neither are you defined by your success(es).
The world defines you by your success and condemns you by your failures. God just plain loves you. God’s the only one who can define you, because He’s the one who made you. Stop listening to the voices that say you are your mistakes and listen to what God says about you. God’s got a whole lot to say to to you in the Bible. Read it to be reminded of His heart, and His thoughts about you.
You’re going to make mistakes even when you try not to make them.
Have you ever been to a doctor or a hospital? Been treated for a aliment or injury? Do you know how the medical field is described? It’s called “medical practice.” Practice implies mistakes are made. But it also implies, getting better, and improving. So in order to get better you have to flub it up. Like Pablo Picasso said “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
Draw outside the lines.
Remember the coloring books you used as a kid and the rules were to stay within the lines. Why? Because if you didn’t, you were doing it wrong. And if you were doing it wrong, you were wrong. So like many you stopped drawing, you stopped dreaming, and you stopped trying for fear of going outside the lines. You stopped because you thought you would flub it up. It’s time to draw outside the lines.
Practical Takeaways:
Go out this week and try something that you’ve wanted to do for awhile, but have not because of fear or flubbing it up
Rest in the assurance that God still loves you when you make mistakes, and He doesn’t define you by them
Email me this week, or tell a friend about something you were afraid to flub up. Now go out and flub it up.