I have to be honest—this is a word I really didn’t know so I looked it up in the dictionary: Discernment—act or power of discerning, judgment, sagacity. Huh? I’m more confused than ever. I have no idea what sagacity is. I don’t think I have ever heard that word before—so it’s back to my trusty dictionary. Sagacity —quickness of discernment, shrewdness, high intelligence. High intelligence, well, that explains why I have never had occasion to use this word. It also made me feel like I was going in circles.
My life feels like that sometimes. I get up every morning with high expectations that I am going to do exactly what God wants me to do today and then Life happens.
I go to take clothes out of the dryer only to discover that I forgot to put them in the dryer last night. I go to put milk on my cereal (or worse yet have it on my cereal) only to discover it’s bad.
I go to work and some customer yells at me because he overdrew his checking account. Then some coworker is complaining loudly and giving me a headache.
In the evening as I go over my day and pray, I realize I am always apologizing and asking for forgiveness for the same things day after day. I also give thanks that God has the discernment (judgment) and sagacity (high intelligence) to forgive me time and time again.
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