Automatic translation from Italian, under review.
When others behave badly, when Christians are not consistent with their faith, we can become indignant; but at times we risk being scandalized far more when it is we ourselves who make mistakes: often we do not know how to forgive ourselves, we cannot resign ourselves to cutting a poor figure. It is our wounded pride that reacts, preventing us from remaining serene, without being surprised at our own mistakes.
Jesus is not astonished at our sins; indeed, as Saint Paul says, his power is made perfect in weakness (cf. 2 Cor 12:9).
After each of our falls, if we ask for his help, he does not leave us alone: with his love, which is most powerful and can change even death into life, he takes that failure of ours upon himself and makes his grace overflow where sin has abounded (cf. Rom 5:20). Thus he overcomes us with his generosity and fills every void, because he loves us in an extraordinary way.
Let us never be discouraged by our failures: when we suffer because of a limitation of ours or an infidelity to Jesus, let us think of him, who on the cross bore upon himself the weight of that failing of ours and, looking at him with love, let us say to him with gratitude and even with joy: “I love you!”