Failure

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

-Orison Sweet Marden Quotes

Failure. The meaning of the word is, "someone or something that is unsuccessful".

The dictionary goes on the describe someone who is utterly unaccomplished, rejected, and not ever able to get back up on their feet. I truly believe that there is no such thing as failure. To be a failure you must have fallen down with no hope and no want of over getting back up. To fail is to die. Anything other than that it merely a trip on the yellow brick road to Jesus.

I'm sick of people calling themselves failures. I'm sick of feeling like a failure.
The world is full of people who will never feel sufficiant enough to make it or feel as though they can't get up in the morning. I am frequently that type of person. But I get by on one thing: and that is my father, God, and friend, Jesus Christ.

When Jesus got up the morning that he knew he was going to be betray, or when he awoke to the fear of knowing that he would have to die a horrible death, on a wooden cross ,after terrible beatings and pain, he may have felt like a failure. He probably didn't question himself asking, "Why is this happening God? Father, what did I do wrong to deserve this treatement, this punishment." Realizing that he had to die for us because of our sins, because of our imperfections and failures...he just took our disobedient spirits and bodies and had them nailed to a cross with his hands and feet. He only ever questioned once, asking if it had to be done that way.

Everyday when bad things happen we question our creator and his plans. We begin to question what we could have failed to 'deserve' such brutal punishment as this. I'm sorry to break it to you; but this life, this love that we were shown is not brutal punishment. We don't have to die on a cross for people we have never known and have no reason to care for. Most of us don't have to suffer daily for our faith because of the amazing blessings that have been bistowed among us. It's incredible to think that we doubt our friend, family, our creator, and ourselves for mistakes that our God had to pay for on a cross, when instead we should be asking for forgiveness and the strength to make it past those obstacles.

You are not a failure and you have no reason to belive you are. God has an amazing purpose for you and that is to worship him with your entire life. Is it so hard to give praise to the one man who gave you the opportunity to live with him for the rest of your life?...

We were created without fault or failure but we do sin, we do mess up, and we do fail. It is part of our human nature, although it doesn't have to be. The choice is ours: to either get up and refuse to allow 'failure' to take away who we are or to allow it to pull us into thinking we were never worth it in the first place.

A quote from Marianne Williamson is the last thing that I'll put on this blog because it is so amazing and so inspiring. It is who God made you and me to be.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."