Sunday, January 18, 2015
All too often, my countrymen excuse lackadaisical attitudes and sloppy workmanship as "just a mistake". When you express displeasure about the "mistake", they minimize the import of the "mistake" and then, to drive their point home, they ask you: "person no dey make mistake?"
Well, person dey make mistake.
I will tell you what one of those mistakes was. That mistake happened today, in my church, on the Sunday bulletin.
Today's second reading is from 2 Cor. 6. Verse 13 says:
"...The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body".
The guys who printed the Sunday bulletin printed:
"...The body is not meant for immortality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body".
The difference between both sentences? Just a "t". The difference that that "t"makes? Plenty. (If you can't find the "t", please look again. That is probably your "mistake").
Mistakes may be minor, but they are not minor inconveniences. Let us remember this the next time we would banalize a serious gaffe as "just a mistake".
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