I have spent the last couple of weeks feeling like a failure...a failure at being a business owner, a failure at being a friend, a failure at being a Christian, a failure at being as healthy as I could be. It has just been an all encompassing time of failure.
But as I mull over these feelings of failure it got me thinking...
What truly makes a failure?
One of the definitions I found for failure is "falling short." This made me wonder, how many of us feel like we fall short on a daily basis?
I know I do.
But I think the only time we truly fall short is when we give up. So I may have spent the month of December feeling like everything I touched turned to crap (as opposed to that delightful Midas who turned everything to gold.)
However, I think that we can't truly call ourselves failures unless we quit trying. Because in the midst of failure may come a morsel of success.
Because ultimately, all of us will fall short. We aren't perfect, we are human. I worship a perfect God because I know how much I fall short. But that doesn't mean I am going to just roll over and play dead. I am going to choose to continue to move forward, wade through this season of crap and hopefully come out strong on the other end.
Hopefully you will too.
Besides Midas turned his daughter to gold...who wants to be like that idiot anyway:)
I needed this, too. Thanks.
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