Holidays!

So its been a pretty intense few weeks for me, two different 'Bible weeks' with young people! God's really been challenging me about my day to day attitudes and behaviours, I can honestly say I'm sometimes impatient and intolerant and I don't like that in myself!
I sometimes put the high expectations that I have for myself onto other people, I forget that we are all at different places in our journey, I also forget that if I can't keep to my own expectations then how can I expect others to reach them?
I think at times we can all be a little unrealistic and it's not until we are in super close proximity to people that these things come to the surface!
Isn't it good that God allows us to make mistakes, He knows exactly who we are and what we are like yet He still chooses to journey with us!
Psalm 103:12-17a says;
"As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our sins from us.
As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him.
For He knows our frame, He remembers that we are dust.
As for man, his days are like grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it and it is gone. And its place remembers it no more.
But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting."
My prayer is that God will help me to remember that we are all dust, we are all on a journey and we get it wrong often! Thank God for His mercy and grace, and pray I will be quick to extend grace to others, we are all on this journey together and we don't need the 'friendly fire' that we are often quick to indulge in!
Grace and peace to us all x