I Don't Make Mistakes

Right before we start anything, I just want to make it very clear that I do make mistakes. I make quite a lot of them. Even when I’m trying very hard not to make mistakes, perhaps especially then, I find myself doing something, or saying something, or being something that annoys, offends or somehow and in some way adversely affects the integrity and harmony of the space-time continuum. I am by no means perfect, but one Sunday a few months back that phrase popped, with no small impact, into my unsuspecting brain. It most definitely wasn’t me telling myself that: it was another voice telling me something, something I already knew on one level but didn’t really, if I’m honest, know at all.

Now, I couldn’t prove to you who spoke those words into my brain because there’s no sure way of gauging it, or framing it, or even describing it. Just as there’s no way of proving to someone else that a cool gust of wind tickled my cheek on an otherwise sweltering summer day. It was a ‘knowing something in my knower moment’, one that is very personal and therefore irrefutable, simply for that reason. Some things are like this. I was trained as a scientist but have always been someone with a love for the unmeasurable, unsubstantiated experiences of life that science cannot even hope to explore or investigate.

I have never heard the audible voice of God but I have had so many experiences of ‘feeling’ Him in my heart and ‘hearing’ him in my head that I cannot deny the existence of His voice. It was like that this Sunday morning. I was sitting down in a soft, welcoming chair in church with a slightly uncomfortable and unsettled heart, experiencing a not uncommon moment of sadness, when those words popped into my head, ‘Simon, I don’t make mistakes’, and here I am sitting, chewing over them months later. Such simple words but with such a depth of meaning. I can feel them bouncing around in me now as I type, touching tender spots inside and bringing joyful tears to my eyes.

I am going to explore these words further over the next few posts. I have a few ideas but I don’t really know for certain where the journey’s going to take me. I sense it will be an exercise in catharsis for me and hopefully it will bring some measure of blessing to you too.

So, if you will, pull your walking boots on and join me on this walk into… well, let’s see shall we.

I think it could be a fun, and challenging and rewarding little trip…

Sx