God makes no MISTAKES in our lives

Last night, WK and me had a spat. Oh...nothing to worry, spats are a regular feature of all marriages if you hadn't known it by now. WK made a comment which I think is very apt in life. He said that some business guru said that whenever 2 strong brands merge to be a single brand, very often it ends up in a divorce and not in synergy. Well, in a marriage, it is hard when 2 persons of strong characters get married. It's the same as the corporate world in some sense. WK and me have very strong characters and very often we clash. But at the same time we produce synergy as well. However, we have our faith and religion to hold us to our ground and not seek the easy way out.

Well, after the spat, we were talking about things. There were things that we said and that we thought that we made mistakes in our lives. I guess it was choices that we made with education and career. However, today as I was thinking through, I realised that God does not make mistakes in our lives at all. What happens is that we gain experiences and learn from what we call mistakes in lives. We went for an MBA talk yesterday. And I was sitting there thinking that I should have gone to a group of 8 university for my undergraduate studies. But then again, if I had done that, I would not have met Eve. And not found a best friend in her. If I didn't study hotel management and studied something else, I wouldn't be able to understand some of the stuff that WK speaks about. There are many examples in my life that I can write about which I think are mistakes that I've learnt a lot from it. But I realised that they are not mistakes. But it's just God's way of showing me lessons and learning from them.

I believe that whenever we dwell on the fact that 'I should have done that' or 'I should not have done that' or 'I made that mistake' and we go on lamenting on it, it'll just bring us more frustrations as we can't see that God is teaching us lessons. I remember working in Woolies in Sydney. I had a crazy manager that didn't quite like me and she made me work mad shifts, yelled at me and many mornings I had to wake up at 5 am during winter to get to work. I used to curse and swear at her...But was it worth it? No, I realised that God was giving experiences to enrich my life.

So....in conclusion...And I've got lunch duty, God makes no mistakes in our lives...No..not even one...And I'm truly thankful for the experiences and lessons that God has provided for me. It has made me a stronger person.