"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Good morning.
Failure is inevitable. Face plants are the building blocks of soaring.
Sometimes failures are accidental -- other times volitional. It's the latter that hurts us the most. When we do something that we wish we didn't, a portal to new understanding opens up for us, but it requires we stay present and avoid hiding & distraction.
Consider this: - The feeling of failure PROVES the existence of a moral standard. It hurts because we know we fell short of what we
"ought" to have done.
- Because it feels bad, we are tempted to avoid, dismiss or minimize our action. This puts us on the wrong path.
- The only thing worse than failing is quitting. Because we lose forever the vehicle of progress.
So what happens when we just can't find peace? Usually, it's because the rails of our thinking are stuck on a closed loop. We can't find forgiveness or the freedom to go on because we can't or won't appropriate the available
forgiveness for ourselves. We can even prefer the pain as a way of punishing ourselves, but that is a death that we embrace while we live--a living hell.
Here are some ideas to help put your thinking on the right track. - We are dialectic. We are mixture of complete opposites: Good & Bad. Spiritual & Physical. Lost & Found. They must remain in tension or it all falls apart.
- This is the design. The
wisdom of our Maker is more visible within the struggle, then by the avoidance of it.
- We all Fail. After we own our mistakes & faced them honestly. After we have done all we can do to correct them. After we trust that somehow it's purposeful. Then we must not stay in a silo. WE ARE NOT ALONE. We are in a community of other failures.
- Never quit. Find inspiration to keep going. Press on toward your aspirations. Leave yesterday in the rear view mirror &
start again. This time with greater understanding.
Make sure to leave last week in the past, our failures are covered, let's live like it.
"If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness." Psalm 130:3-4 |
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