flawed people

This may not come out as a complete and tidy thought but I wanted to put it down on the page to share. 
We are all human, we are flawed, and weak, and we screw things up.  The hope is that as we get older we learn and we make less mistakes and do a better job of staying on the path that we laid out for ourselves, but in reality often we just make newer and bigger mistakes and make bigger messes and failures.
In the Bible, David was notorious for his failures.  He would get his eyes off God and wander in his own selfishness and lusts until God reminded him who he was and what he was created for.  And he would always turn from his mistakes and failures and amazing progress would be made for the nation he led.
**Spoiler Alert - If you have not seen the greatest showman and would like to stop reading now, I am about to give away most of the movie.
An easy example to see of this type of behaviour is illustrated in the recently released movie The Greatest Showman.  Phineas Tailor Barnum was a man of vision, a dreamer.  As the storyline goes (the movie storyline, not necessarily the real life story) he had a dream from a young age, a dream of greatness, a dream that from a reasonable mind was outside his reach.  He had an anchor in Charity, the girl who would become his wife, she was his reason to fight, the prize he needed to win.  His life though as an orphan was fraught with failure, but each time life got him down something would be a catalyst of focus.  First it was the kindness of an outcast, a deformed girl who gave him an apple and also planted the seeds for his the larger part of the fruition of his dream.  That kindness fought back the depression and rekindled the will to fight for his impossible dream.  And when the fight to survive seemed once again hopeless an opportunity to work for the railroad once again put him back on the path to success.  Having had success with the railroad and changing his status in life he finally won the prize and was able to marry Charity.  But being the dreamer winning the prize only makes the dream bigger.  Now he needed to become a great success so he could give Charity the life he believes she deserves.  At this point the dream often blinds him from blessings he has and he keeps striving for more and it often becomes about him proving that he is better than he is.  Every time he fails though something stirs him onto even more greatness.  He loses his job and begins to fall into the mindset of failure when his wife reminds him of the "magic" that they created in their little family.  That encouragement stirs him onto his next big adventure.  When his wax museum ideas fail and he is on the brink of bankruptcy the dreams he has planted in his daughters remind him that he needs to think outside the box do something sensational and he is reminded of the disfigured girl who turned his perspective around  so many years before.  When he starts to recruit his troupe of "freaks" he immediately falls flat on his face and a toy soldier reminds him that people respond better to encouragement and flattery rather than ridicule.  The next big failure in his life he was the last one to see and so he did not respond to all the signals he was given to avoid and ultimately lost him everything.  BUT......... (and in our lives this is where we insert the BUT GOD because until we are dead and shed our earthly bodies God is not done with us and will always give us a chance to continue His work)  But, sitting in the bar wallowing in self pity and despair Barnum's family of "freaks" that he created came to remind him of the great things he has made and calls him out of his self pity and reminds him that the dream is worth fighting for.  This is my favorite part of the movie because it shows us how repentance and redemption works.
We all screw up, most of us do it on a regular basis.  We are going to fail, what matters is that in times like that we look to God and let him set our focus on His path for our lives.  God is always faithful, he will always point you in the right direction, but we have to learn to look past ourselves.