Poultry.

This post is not about a bird, or birds, or turkey.

This morning in Sunday School my teacher was talking about... to be honest I really don't remember the context of this word vomit, but I remember he was trying to say poetry, and the word came out poultry. I didn't sleep much last night, and given my state of mind at nine thirty in the morning, I cracked up.

I dismissed the incident as a flub up in speech, something that happens to me a lot. But tonight, as one of my friends on Facebook reminded me of this morning. I realized a few things about this episode.

1) I have one of the coolest Sunday school teachers in the world, who puts up with a bunch of high school guys every Sunday morning, not to mention bringing us homemade cookies and milk (the milk isn't homemade you word Nazis)

2) Even those people we look up to make mistakes, sure this was a small mistake, but the principle applies to bigger mistakes. We are all human, born into sin, and once we forget that, we lose sight of reality and begin to lose sight of the big picture.

3) We are so quick to point out others' flaws. It's actually really disgusting. And part of the reason I'm disgusted is that I am just as guilty as everyone else. We are so quick to point out something someone else does, that we fail to see our own wrongdoings. No, it's not a sin to change poetry to poultry. In this case it was very funny. But the point is that we all screw up. All of us. Us, including me.

Never forget that.

³ “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? ⁴ How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? ⁵ You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
-Matthew 7:3-5