Sounds like a crazy thing to “fail forward.” After all when you fail doesn’t that mean you fall flat on your backside where you stay awhile until you decide to swallow your pride and get up to try again. Throwing a few pity parties in the meantime. Right? Wrong! The direction in which we handle our failures is important. We can fail and fall backwards or fail and fall forward and learn from our mistakes or lack of knowledge. We need to realize that not all failures are caused by “mistakes.” Sometimes we simply fail at something, by no fault of our own.
The mistake comes when we choose to let our failures get us down and stomp us deeper in self-pity and our ability to give up. We need to use our failures to move us forward through learning and the determination to get it right and succeed the next time. One of the lessons to be discovered is learning that there are some things that we will always fail at no matter what. Duh! Instead of wasting our time on the things we don’t have the knack for we need to move forward to the things we can eventually succeed in if we don’t give up. Fall forward to Jesus and discover the blessing of His loving arms and encouragement He has to offer.
Copyright 2008 Karen J. Gillett @ Pencil Marks and Recipes Publishing
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