I have two different apps on my iPad and my computer that are supposed to catch all my spelling and grammatical mistakes and make suggestions on clarity. It will underline all the things that need changing in red. Usually, when I finish a 400-word blog, the entire thing is underlined, and some of it is underlined twice.

Last night, for some reason, neither one of the apps was working, so I decided to go ahead and write my blog without it. I made it extra short and read over it ten times to find any mistakes or corrections I needed to make. Today, I got emails and text messages from five different people pointing out mistakes I had made in my blog. Man, I knew I should have skipped writing my blog last night until my apps were working again.

The problem with the suggestions is that I couldn’t go back and fix the mistakes; the blog was already out. I know those who sent the suggestions were thinking that now I wouldn’t make the same mistake again, but I have made the same error dozens of times, being corrected after each one. It is funny how my brain works or doesn’t work. I read an average of 100 pages in good books weekly, listen to hours of podcasts and sermons by excellent speakers, and receive more coaching on spelling and grammar than any ten people combined. However, I still border on being illiterate regarding spelling and grammar. I am going to claim it as a learning disability! I have memorized almost 1000 Bible verses well, but it takes me ten times longer to memorize the words to a song than to memorize the same number of words in a Bible passage.

If I didn’t have my Apps, I would recruit some people who are good at what I am bad at to proofread everything I wrote before I published or sent it out via email.

The Bible talks about the church being made up of people who are different in giftedness, temperament, passion, maturity, and mental ability. That difference was caused by God by design so that we would be interdependent, which means we need one another to succeed. The problem is that it takes humility to admit that we need other people to be complete and succeed. Many people never accomplish, grow, or experience much joy because of their pride. That is too bad; getting notes from people is fun because I know they want me to succeed.