If I’m not mistaken, today was Monday…
I spent the first part of my workday today dealing with mistakes. Other people’s mistakes… mostly.
While my computer was booting up, I dialed into my voicemail. “You have ONE unplayed message.” Beep. I listened as someone told me that I had made a mistake a week ago, and asked how we could get that resolved. I called her back to assure her that I hadn’t made a mistake. (At least not that time…)
Next I placed a call to someone to gently let her know that she was repeatedly making a certain mistake that caused extra work for me. I had been in my office for all of two minutes; the day wasn’t starting too great.
I quickly sorted through some things I had set aside on Friday as top priority for this morning… as well as some things my boss had added. My next task was to repair the damage from a mistake someone else had made a year ago, and when I completed that, I pulled a report that would make it easy for yet another person to identify mistakes they might have made recently. Next on the agenda? Fixing a set of three mistakes I had made last week.
Dealing with so many mistakes was a pretty rotten way to start a Monday. I’m not the World’s Most Patient Woman when I encounter incompetence and inefficiency, whether in others OR MYSELF. So before I had even put in an hour of work this morning, I was feeling frustrated and annoyed.
Lord, have mercy.
Fortunately, I know a Great High Priest who was available to swing by my office on a Monday morning to hear my confession… and to grant mercy and grace in my time of need (Hebrews 4:14-16). I highly recommend Him. 
