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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWhen we finally got out of the parked position and got to driving, he would say that to me time and again, in this sort of rhythmic voice as he guided me along, \u201cThousands of tiny corrections\u201d. And my hands would turn the steering wheel here and there by just little millimeters, keeping the car in between the painted lines. He made me put my tires off the road onto the gravelly shoulder while driving with some speed, so that I would know what it felt like and calmly steer back onto the road. He said it\u2019s common to drift off the road. Good drivers do it too. But inexperienced drivers jolt and overcorrect and veer into lanes that aren\u2019t theirs and get into accidents. Thousands of tiny corrections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My friend in high school crashed because a bee flew into her car and she started swatting at it. I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s applicable to thousands of tiny corrections. But somehow, I still think that if she had gotten that training, she could have managed the bee situation better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In life, we\u2019re tempted to overcorrect. To do big resets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019re going to temporarily homeschool next year, so I\u2019ve been learning about that world lately. They say overhauling your curriculum choice is tempting when things aren\u2019t quite working. But usually that\u2019s not necessary, or really even the cause of your discontent. A few minor changes, a different or more graceful perspective, cutting out one task, or a deep breath can sometimes be the wise thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If it\u2019s even necessary to state this, I\u2019ll go ahead and do it: when a child runs in front of your car, a thousand tiny corrections won\u2019t cut it; we\u2019ve got to slam on the brakes! And so it is sometimes in life. God sometimes invites us to take a risk, trust Him for something big, make a radical change. And we ought to respond to His leading! <\/p>\n\n\n\n But I\u2019ve been thinking about a thousand tiny corrections lately. Maybe I just miss my dad. But it keeps coming up for me. Because in between the big major life landmarks, it\u2019s the little things that make up our day, our life. And, of course, that\u2019s been true in our work here, too. The vision of starting a business in North India, the making it come to be, and some landmarks along the way, have been big and crucial. But minor corrections have been just as formative. Benign staffing rearrangements. Meeting again to remind ourselves what we value and why we do things. Praying for each other in the in between moments. Naming roles. Stopping doing something that had been done for a while. It could be anything, really. Anything that keeps you on the road, in between the lanes, running the race that is marked out for you. A thousand tiny corrections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My dad was a good teacher. I guess he was like that famous football coach who held up the football each year and said, \u201cGentlemen, this is a football\u201d. Or the professor I had in nursing school who was trying to teach us what it was like to evaluate the dilation of a cervix (is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ziyada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ZindigiCloth-16-min-1024x683.jpg\")
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