As children, we attended Sunday School and good folks still go. On the other hand, I try to juggle preparing for the regular service with the Sunday news shows—no tivo here. Sunday Morning on CBS is the smoothest brain food on the box and Wynton Marsalis does the opening trumpet fanfare.
The lead story yesterday focused on mistakes and the actual good that can come from them like Columbus “discovering” America while looking for a trade route to Asia. That story started me thinking about other good mistakes: the newly unemployed professional who spends precious time with an aging parent and the pink-slipped father who finally makes little league games. Come to think about it, those are not mistakes. They are just unfortunate situation turned positive. (See how I admitted my mistake like a man.)
The CBS story mentioned the scientific discoveries that were really mistakes like Viagra. While it is a stretch, I think friends who partied deep into their twenties made a mistake but that carousing kept them from becoming spouses and parents before the right time—basically, who wants to marry someone running the streets. The “all is well that ends well” results are people entering the family phase of life after the wildness is out of their systems—hopefully.
The Obama Administration is making it’s share of mistakes but I know this young president has the temperament to admit miscues and properly adjust. Recently, President Obama talked honesty about being a one-term president if the economy doesn’t turn around. Wait a minute; we heard this during the campaign from Obama and McCain. A new president comes in office and makes big changes (like a consultant coming into a workplace) then leaves without needing to think about reelection. Could this be part of the private meeting/arrangement with then candidate Clinton? I can see the headlines now: Obama walks away at the top of his game like Jim Brown and 1980 Hockey Olympiad Mike Eruzione. Would that be a mistake?
They said a first-term senator running for president was a mistake but he won and many Americans love his approach to the office so far.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/22/sunday/main4882388.shtml
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