A Saint is A Sinner Who Falls A Hundred Times a Day (© 2008 Eileen Baker)

What does this mean?

It means a realisation. To accept themselves exactly as they are.

The human condition means that we are prone to 'falling' or 'failing'.

The Saints became aware of their fallings, failings and human condition.
So they accepted them in the light of being aware.
Being aware enabled them to journey on their paths.

Then they understood many fallings and failings and grew in spirit and in light.
By standing under the fallings and failings they drew on God.
Then they overcame some fallings and failings.
By coming over their fallings and failings through the Light.
But they still fell and failed sometimes or often.
And they could recognise this.

And they remained in the human condition and so could forgive us our fallings and failings very readily.

Recognise you as you are. Accept you as you are. God does.

Allow yourself to be and do not blame yourself and load on the guilt about your shortcomings.
We can grow with them, through them and by standing under them.
Sometimes, we can overcome them, but not always.

Do not force it.

Just be aware.

Just become more aware, in time.

Don't rush.

There is all the time in the world.

The Saints know that.

The Saints did not know that they were Saints either.

So you don't have to be a Saint.

You can be an informed sinner and lose the guilt!