"Does your life work regardless of whether you’re perfect or not?"

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I can remember from my childhood helping my dad hang the lights on the Christmas tree. But before we hung them, we had to check them. My dad plugged them in to make sure they worked. Back then, the lights were serial, not parallel like today’s. Today, if one bulb is blown, the rest of them work just fine because the electricity flows around them to the other bulbs. But when I was a kid, each bulb was dependent on the other bulbs to work properly and pass on the electricity. If a bulb was blown, the circuit was broken and the electricity stopped there.

When that happened, I had to exchange each bulb with one that worked, checking to see if that was the blown one. If I got the right one, the string lit up. If it wasn’t the blown one, the string didn’t light up. The entire string had to be perfect for it to work.

I’m so grateful for today’s Christmas lights. And I’m also grateful that life works regardless of whether we’re all perfect or not, that God’s grace flows through us to each other even when you’re having a blown day.

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