Second Chances.

"There’s no shame in beginning again. For you get a chance to build bigger and better than before."

Of course, this is a common rule in life, but I'm going to relate it to theater today. 

Every time I do a show, right before the last show, the directors will tell us to go all out 100% because it will be the last chance we get, and you don't want to regret it!

The nice thing about theater, (and life), is we are often given multiple chances. In theaters, if you mess up during the first show, you have four more shows to try and get it right, which is actually pretty nice. :)

But the same goes for life. Every day is a chance to live your life differently, bigger, and better. 

If you make a decision you wish you wouldn't have made, you have the next day to decide to make a different one. 

If you mess up something one day, you have the chance to go and fix it the next day. 

If you've been living day to day, with the same old dreadful schedule, each day is a new chance to go an do something new and amazing. 

We won't ever realize just how many chances God throws our way! Half the time we don't even notice them!

Of course, sometime in our life, there won't be a tomorrow to go and do things over. So what are you waiting for? If you have the chance to change today, then don't wait! Because there may not be a chance to do it tomorrow! 

Sometimes we are afraid of our second chances. We get afraid that we may just mess things up a second time, or we may be afraid that things are just too unfixable. But, we won't ever know until we try. And if it doesn't work the second time, who says we don't have a third or fourth or fifth chance?

But you see, if God so graciously gives us second chances every day, we must be willing to do the same for everyone else. Because no one deserves a second chance more than someone else. The murderer, prisoner, homeless...they deserve second chances, too. And third, and fourth, and fifth chances. Just. Like. Us. 

What's the point of God giving us grace if we aren't going to give it to others? 

"Go forward and do the same."

See, we tend to think that if someone could do something as bad as murder, or steal, then they just deserve to die right then and there. 

But so do we. 

Every day is a new chance. It's just a matter of whether or not we take advantage of it.