10/17/2025
Pink Floyd’s song “One Slip” has been playing in my head all morning. It’s about how one impulsive decision—one moment of weakness, one reckless choice—can change everything. It’s about that fragile moment between control and chaos — when a single misstep redirects your life. The line “one slip, and down the hole we fall” feels painfully familiar. I know what it’s like to fall hard and fast, to wake up in the wreckage of my own doing, wondering if life will ever make sense again.
But what still undoes me is how grace meets us there—not before the slip, not after we’ve managed to climb out, but in the fall itself. The gospel doesn’t say, “Don’t slip.” It says, “When you do, I’ll catch you. Everytime.”
Our failures don’t get the last word. God’s mercy does.