One of my favorite moments in class this year was when I made a mistake in front of my students and, upon admitting it, one of my students asked, “Teachers don’t know everything Ms. López?” He’s a freshman so it was sincere. Part of me wanted to say, well of course we do, that’s why we have degrees and piles and piles of books in our classrooms ; yet a deeper part of me knew it was good to say, “we are always learning, just like you.” That deeper part of me heard in his question, “wait, you are not perfect?” And praise God that I am not! Striving for perfection, to be always right and never wrong, is e x h a u s t i n g . When I strive for perfection, I am too focused on myself and not focused enough on grace. Not focused enough on God. Grace, I have learned, is more present in imperfection than in perfection because that is when we are still teachable. In the first reading for today , Moses reminds the Israelites that their God is “teaching [them] to observe” God’s ways....
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