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There was a period of time that I was praying on Facebook Live every week. It was a brief, noontime prayer that lasted all of ten minutes, but was a chance to connect with people at the height (depth?) of the pandemic. These prayers were soul-nourishing, and while the circumstances that necessitated them were terrible, the prayers themselves provided me comfort.

There was also a week when this happened...

This was perhaps one of the funniest moments of my 2021 and it popped into my head the other day. I love the silly video. This post is perhaps for no other reason than to have it fresh in my head and to laugh at myself some more. 

But as this is a blog for me to provide my reflections I will say this:

It is important that we remember that no matter how good we are at whatever it is that we do, we will always drop our computers (metaphorically). We will screw up, and fail, and look foolish, and feel dumb. Sometimes this will be no big deal (see above), and sometimes it will be a huge deal. But it will happen. And how we respond to it is important. 

Is there a Rue McClanahan GIF for everything?

This is at the core of our faith when we talk about God's grace. This is the core of our faith when we talk about the forgiveness of sins. Failure is natural, it's baked into who we are. But God will never see us only for our failures. What we're offered is a chance to respond to the failures.

That's the message of Easter. Jesus died because of the ways humans fail. But Easter happened because our failure is never the last thing. 

Thanks for reading this, but really what we're here for is the video. Watch it again. It ages like wine.

Peace,

Jeff Fox-Kline