Don’t Neglect Your Mercy

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” -Ernest Hemingway

You know what you should be doing. You know what you could be becoming. You know all those opportunities you missed, and all those you could have created. It’s no sin. In fact, it means you care. It means you’re intelligent enough to recognize progress, or the lack therein.

The problem isn’t with your intelligence, or with your care; it’s with your mercy.

In your relentlessness, don’t neglect your mercy.

If logic appeals to you, look at it this way: what other being’s intentions are you more well acquainted with than your own? You know if you have honest intent. Therefore, granting mercy is justified by honest intentions despite previous failure. And, if you see that your intent is not as sterling as it should be, then you are in just the right position to change that. And, changing it will require granting yourself mercy for the new day.

These days, happiness is difficult. Improvement and investment are difficult. Things of value seem distant. Don’t inhibit yourself by making mercy distant as well. God certainly isn’t.