Do you remember the old (and I do mean old) child’s song/nursery rhyme, “Ring Around the Rosie“? It goes something like this…

Ring around the Rosie,
A pocketful of posies.
Ashes, ashes.
We all fall down.

I remember singing it as a kid (kinda silly looking back now). We had no idea what the song was about (no, it’s not about the Black Plague as some people think it is). And the song/game would go on, and on, and on…

But there is one phrase in there that has an important meaning…and it is almost a direct quote from a Scripture passage I read this morning:

We all stumble in many ways.
James 3:2, NIV

I don’t know about you, but I may just be the poster-child for this passage. I looked up the word “stumble” and it has this idea of us all (plural) falling, stumbling, making mistakes, falling short.

Just like the song says: “We all fall down.”

All of us. We fall. It’s what we do.

But God picks us up. Sometimes He carries us.

We stumble. We fall. God doesn’t—ever.