Put Away The Beating Stick

Self-talk: Remember...you are not perfect.  The things you do are not perfect.  (Just ask your family family.)  You will not get everything you do right...let alone on the first try.  Put away the beating stick.  Walk away from the flagellation board.

You are not less of a person because your gluten-free chocolate chip banana bread that was supposed to take an hour at 350 was as hard as coprolites after 45 minutes and is now waiting some sort of resuscitation, if it is at all possible.  (Mom used to add an apple, cut in half, into a container with overdone muffins, leave it overnight, and it would soften them.  When that doesn't work bread pudding can always be added to the menu.  And when that resorts in nothing successful the garden is always in need of more compost or the local ravens of some snacks.)

You are not less of a person.  Honestly. 

So the gluten-free granola you made, which tasted heavenly until you discovered that spelt is NOT gluten-free, had to be given away.  So you ate a bite of a kit kat (okay, the whole darn thing) before looking at the label...uh duh... what else would those wafers be made of? So you bought two bags of gluten-free wraps that taste slightly more edible than plastic corn (you can always try to bake them into "chips")....

Ahhhhh.  God loves you even if you've found some "glitches" in this whole gluten-free adventure (and many more glitches in yourself).  So put away the beating stick...although, on second thought: it might make a darn good bat for those banana bread baseballs...