Terrible Mistakes

the messiness is never bigger than the mercy

What if our terrible mistakes
are a messy necessity;
the chaotic back of the tapestry;
the only way in which
the beautiful big picture
can be formed?

What if our biggest regrets
and failed forgive-and-forgets
are fertilizer for empathy;
The only soil from which
a truly compassionate heart
can grow? 

What if being wrong
helps us to belong;
Family through failure,
Mercy, Mother of Us All;
loved as we are,
more than we can know? 

~Cheryl Anne Maris

Today I drove for the first time since my surgery. It felt so good! A little step toward "normalcy", or what I often refer to as "my version of normal". On the way home, I drove down my favorite road; the winding one with the canopy of trees. A feeling of being gently enfolded by a Greater Goodness welled up within and gathered around me. In an instant I was aware that this Greater Goodness knows all of us entirely. Every struggle, every fear, every mistake, every regret, every failure. That doesn't stop the Greater Goodness from seeking to enfold us. 
"Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life..." ~Psalm 23:6
There's been a lot coming into my awareness recently; much in need of compassionate attention and healing. It's good in the midst of that to be reminded that the messiness is never bigger than the mercy. 
Deep Peace, Love, and Gentlest Blessings to All. <3